Yvette Phillips LSDC

Stitched & Constructed Textiles

About Yvette
Yvette is a textile and embroidery artist based in Oxfordshire. Vintage fabrics are central to her practice, not just for their aesthetics, but for how they connect with lives and memories. Textiles can provoke an emotional response, and have an inherent history that makes transforming them a meaningful process. She combines them with appliqué and hand embroidery to create a rich palette of colours, patterns and textures; imbuing birds and small mammals with life and individual character, colour combinations that sing, and a sense of atmosphere.
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Sewing has been a lifelong passion, first sparked in early childhood by my grandmother. Since then, it has remained a constant thread in my life. A core element of my practice is the use of vintage fabrics - not only for their visual appeal, but for the stories they carry. These materials often bear subtle traces of their previous lives, and repurposing them becomes a meaningful act of transformation.

My work is inspired by the natural world, with birds as my primary muse. To me, few creatures capture the delicate, extraordinary beauty of nature as they do. Through hand embroidery, I honour their intricate forms and exquisite detail. This is a slow and deliberate process - one that demands presence but also brings a sense of peace.

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Education:

  • BA (Hons) Visual Arts (specialising in print making), De Montfort University

Memberships:

  • Oxford Art Society
  • The Society for Embroidered Work
  • Modern Makers Collective
  • Heritage Crafts Association

Selected exhibitions:

  • 2025 - Stitch by Stitch, Willow Gallery, Oswestry
  • 2025 - Bug, Bird, Beast, The Gallery at Waterperry Gardens
  • 2025 - The Broderers’ Exhibition: The Art of Embroidery, Bankside Gallery
  • 2024 - Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Deal
  • 2024 - Tutton & Young’s Open, Atelier Beside the Sea, Brighton
  • 2024 - Oxfordshire Artweeks, Blewbury
  • 2023 - Ayres House Studios Associates Exhibition, Wallingford
  • 2023 - Oxford Art Society Members’ Exhibition, Oxford
  • 2022 - Artists at the Museum, River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames
  • 2022 - Oxford Art Society Members’ Exhibition, Oxford
  • 2022 - The Broderers’ Exhibition: The Art of Embroidery, Bankside Gallery
  • 2019 - International Contemporary Stitched Art, Clerkenwell Gallery, London
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