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Fiona Whyte LSDC

Stitched & Constructed Textiles

About Fiona
Fiona is a textile & mixed media artist making wearable, sculptural and wall mounted work. Born in Sussex, she is influenced by wild landscapes, particularly deserts and seascapes and the ever evolving and changing textures and light and splits her time between Sussex and the mountains of Portugal where she creates in her kitchen. She lives with her partner, four dogs and two cats.
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Fiona became interested in working with fibres after visiting a disused wool mill in the mountains of Portugal over ten years ago. She often uses fibres in a painterly way, layering colour and texture to create expressive pieces, or models and manipulates wool & other fibres to create three dimensional pieces. Fiona says that each piece is created and thought of in layers and textures that are constructed rather than flat. Textures, movement and light are important themes in her work. She is also inspired by social issues of liberty and containment.

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Fiona studied wood, metal ceramic and plastics at university in the 90's gaining a BA Hons. Her work has been exhibited in many group shows in southern Europe and she had her first solo show in 2022. She is currently a shortlisted artist for the Fairfield Mill Textile Competition and exhibition. She has had commissions from the USA and UK for her wearable pieces – creating a piece for a private collector based on the oceans and migrants that have lost their lives in those waters whilst searching for a better life. Fiona is proud of most of her work but says about a fifth is recycled as bedding for local animal charities. In 2020 Fiona founded a multi- disciplinary art collective. She is also a writer.

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