Lucie Summers - NUA MA Showcase 2020
MA Textile work showing a textured fabric collage in naturally dyed colours.

My creative practice is ever evolving but is always deeply rooted in quilt making. My current fabric collage pieces explore relationships between the worn and weathered surfaces I find on my daily walks in and around the farm where I live. My collection of pre-worn and used textiles include pieces of my farmer husband’s work clothes.

MA Textile work showing detail of a textured fabric collage in naturally dyed colours.

I prefer to use fabrics with a history and embrace their rips and stains and stories of a previous life. I use these pieces together with fabrics dyed with plants and crops I gather from the hedgerows, meadows and fields surrounding the farmyard to create a circular process that knits together my work alongside my husband’s on the farm.

Textured textile sample in bright colours showing an arial view of fields.

During my Master’s degree in Textile Design, I have been shortlisted for the Vlieseline Fine Art Textile Award in both 2019 and 2020.

 

Get in touch and say hello at luciesummers@yahoo.co.uk

Naturally dyed fabric collage showing an arial view of fields.
Four textile pieces hanging in an old farm shed next to a blue vintage tractor.