Lucinda Button, 'In Your Memory.' (2024)
Medium:
Mixed media and Textiles
Size:
48cm x66cm
|
I have always collected fabrics and all sorts of objects both human and natural that many might consider rubbish. I really appreciate and use the history of the fabric as a part of my creative process. Combining pieces of my personal collection into pieces of work that in turn tell a story really excites and motivates me. My relationship with my own fabric archive has allowed me to produce several new bodies of work, though I'm sure there's much more to come as I put my teaching hat down and commit to working entirely as an independent artist.
Graduate of Glasgow School of Art and Wimbledon respectively I have worked as a Textiles and interior designer, broadcast journalist for BBC WS and VOA before becoming a mother and Art teacher. Never stopping my creativity, always collecting, thinking, lucky enough to travel a fair bit, my environmental roots run deep. My extensive collections of ‘detritus’ as some describe them have allowed me to take a deep dive and finally find my stride and my own creative voice. Using the skills, knowledge and passion I have for our planet I hope to visually stimulate whilst encouraging discussions on the environment. I hope to excite, stimulate discussion and thought. My work is abstract, often making significant use of colour and the rich history of a fabrics involved or simply their inherent textures. I like to sometimes allow work to escape the frame; this is for visual and psychological purposes. I want the viewer to wonder why, to want to look more closely and think. |
Lucinda Button, 'As it was then' (2025)
Medium:
Textile and mixed media
Size:
15cm x 15cm
|
I combine many different processes and techniques to produce a variety of different Textile responses. I reuse fabrics; old clothes to outdated fabric swatch books. Nothing is wasted; papers are made from these swatch books; work is created from the paper left from the dying processes.
These repurposed fabrics are then sometimes dyed, mono-printed. Then, hours of hand embroidery connect these disparate fabrics together. The patience needed to hand stitch has actually been an important aspect of my own psychological needs. Keeping in the present, not allowing the strains and stresses of life to overwhelm me, it calms me. The damage wrought by man on our marine environment is a powerful motivation behind much of my work, as I want to educate through transformation, finding beauty in unwanted objects, waste materials. The inclusion of dried seeds or fragile pieces of land detritus I hope draws a parallel to the current fragility of our world. I very often take on commissions or choose exhibitions that allow me to use my visual language but also potentially make a point; whether its communication about the environment be it land or sea or on a more personal level about individuals. |
Lucinda Button, 'Elle' (2023)
Medium:
Textile and mixed media
|
