Exhibit Dates:  July 1, 2016 - July 31, 2016
Artist Reception:  Thursday July 21, 5 - 7 p.m.

About The Exhibit

Breaking the traditional boundaries of craft, Stewart Easton’s work fuses together hand embroidery, sonic art and music.

Drawing upon and using folk song, story and social history as a starting point Easton works with the space and weight of story to create large scale wall based pieces which emphasise the passage of time within a single panel. These pieces vary in size and medium and can be drawn with hand embroidery, direct wall drawing or paint. Whichever medium is used Easton emphasises the need to create using the hand as it is in this process that a connection is made with the story allowing a slowing down and immersion in the moment.

Most recently Easton has been removing the ‘storyline’ of a visual narrative by cutting up the baseline and reassembling the work in a chance layout enabling the viewer to be free of their preconceptions of story. Using a process of ‘patchwork’ he is enabling himself to create a visual reference to an ever changing pathway.

Easton’s stitch work blurs the lines between craft, illustration and fine art making his work dynamic and progressive and a must see.

Stewart Easton is a visual storyteller based in London who works in thread, ink, paint and digital media.

About The Artist

Education

MA Illustration and Animation, Coventry University, 2008-2009

Exhibitions

2016 ‘The ballad of Colonel Cody’ joint show Nathaniel Mann, Aldershot, April

‘He longed for weightlessness’ Solo show, Outline Editions, London, Feb.

2015 ‘Gather-ing’ Stoke -Sub-Hamden Priory, Somerset, Oct13 – 20

’the next verse’ solo show, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford, July 6 – Sept 9

‘the next verse’ solo show as part of Supersonic Festival 2015, A3 Projects, Birmingham June13 -16

2014 ‘Monsters & Mischief: an exhibition of folkloric inspired artwork’ , Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, 31 October

‘Monsters & Mischief: an exhibition of folkloric inspired artwork’, Bohunk Institute, Nottingham, 23 October – 26 October

‘Over time their plight was forgotten’ Solo show, Prick your Finger, London, 26 September – 17 October

‘…and then they came for the children’ Solo show, St Mary’s Art and Retreat Centre, Virginia City, Nevada, USA, 28 June- 20 August

‘Yan Tan Tethera – Songs of Textile Folk’, group show, Cecil Sharp House, London, 15 May – 25 Sept

Pick Me Up London – Group show, Somerset House, London, 24 April – 5 May

2013 ‘House of Beorma Archive’, group show, New Library Birmingham, 7 October – 13 October

‘Temporary Whims’, group show, Fish Factory Art Space, Falmouth, 2 August – 31 August

‘Retrospective’, solo show, St Marys Arts and Retreat Centre, Virginia City, Nevada, USA. 12 July 2013 – 25 July

‘A3 Works’, group show, A3 Project Space, Birmingham. 28 June- 6 July

‘Once Upon a Time in the Midlands’, group show, Bilston Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton. 25 May – 24 August

‘Backwoods’, joint show, Temple Gallery, Aberfeldy, Scotland. 27 May – 24 June

‘Backwoods’, joint show, Shrewsbury Coffeehouse, Shrewsbury. 4 March- 4 May

‘Talking Textiles’, group show, Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford. 12 Jan- 10 March

2012 Making Moves- Creating futures for Craft’, Tour -Various spaces.

‘Drawn to Craft’, group show, Bilston Craft Gallery,

‘WOW the contemporary art of knit and stitch’, The Gallery ,Rheged, Penrith.

Making Moves – Creating Futures for Craft’, group show, mac, Birmingham, 14 December – 2 February

2011 Four Tragic Tales’, solo show, mac, ‘

Anticurate’, group show, mac,

‘Leamington open 2011’, Leamington Spa Pump Rooms and Gallery