Artist

Louise Baldwin

Born

1956 in Walsall West Midlands UK

Region

Arts Council England London

Work Made

Wall Hangings

Materials Used

Mixed media - fabric paper paint

Methods Used

Hand and machine stitched collaged

Louise has exhibited her work throughout Britain, in America, Japan and Germany. Baldwin's recent pieces now incorporate found imagery colour and domestic packaging alongside fabric and simple stitch to produce rich small scale textiles that explore some of the complexities of contemporary life.

The most recent works are constructed mainly from the mundane waste of domestic packaging; biscuit wrappers, medication boxes, card form toys etc. It is collaged together and then machine stitched to just take it back a level before 'idyllic' or 'naive' imagery is hand stitched onto the surface. ‘I have become interested in the different levels at which humans operate on a day to day basis; the ordinary and the throwaway elements placed alongside our imagination, ambitions and desires; one forms the background for the other and realities become blurred.’