Emily Jo Gibbs: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 58

I’m so pleased to share this conversation with Emily Jo Gibbs, a fantastic textile maker who I have admired for many years. It won’t surprise you that I love Emily’s work and we had a really interesting, broad-ranging conversation about the why behind the work.

Emily is a British artist who has established an international reputation for her delicate textiles. Predominantly working with silk organza layered onto linen, Emily creates hand-stitched portraits and still lives with a graphic quality, observing the quiet beauty of the overlooked.  

Often making work depicting other makers, stitching in a meticulous way using tiny stab stitches, she celebrates people who make things. She describes her investment of time in making the work as a quiet, thoughtful act of care and value.

Emily works to commission, for exhibitions and projects. She is currently artist in residence at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London’s Docklands. 

She is a member of the 62 Group of Textile Artists, Contemporary Applied Arts and the Artworkers Guild.

Between 1993 and 2006 Emily made luxury handbags. Works from this period are in The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Crafts Council Collection and The Museum of Fine Art, Houston.

Links

www.emilyjogibbs.co.uk

https://www.trinitybuoywharf.com/news/artist-in-residence-emily-jo-gibbs

https://www.emilyjogibbs.co.uk/online-course

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