Maxine Sutton

Bio

Maxine Sutton is a UK-based visual artist working at the intersection of textile processes and contemporary abstraction. She lives and works in Margate, Kent.

She studied at the Royal College Of Art and Ravensbourne College of Art. Her practice draws on a background in painting, textile processes, and material reuse. In 2008, she was selected for Reflect Forward, a research project at the Museum of the Home  (then known as The Geffrye Museum), which included a solo presentation at Craft Central, London.

Her work has been presented through exhibitions, projects, and commissions in the UK and internationally.

Statement

My practice operates at the meeting point of textile processes and contemporary abstraction. I work with reclaimed cloth and on paper, constructing works with drawing, print, stitch and appliqué. I use colour and form as material conditions, exploring fragmentation, structure, and arrangements where body, object, and surface, intersect without looking for predetermined narratives.

Textiles function as both form and content, finding meaning in the relationships between parts and in their proximity to body, home, and environment. Processes that include screen and mono-print, embroidery and needlework, move between speed and slowness, intuition and formal decision-making. I use improvisation and chance, whilst sustaining an attention to the constraints of materials. Form, figure, and colour remain in active tension. Abstraction is a means of negotiating a lived rhythm, without expecting resolution.

Through reuse and material sensitivities, questions of waste and production are embedded within the work. I continue to revisit and reassemble, in changing conditions, allowing for uncertainty and incompleteness.

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