Harriet Riddell Explained

Harriet Riddell
Birth Date:1990
Field:textile art
Training:University of Hertfordshire

Harriet Riddell (born 1990) is a performance textile artist and educator from Oxfordshire who uses freeform embroidery to create stitched portraits and live scenarios.[1] Often stitching in challenging locations such as public markets, slums and fields, she has used solar energy, bicycle-powered batteries, and foot pedals to power her sewing machine.[2] Riddell has exhibited her work around the world including in London,[3] Delhi, Nairobi and Toronto.[4]

Riddell initially learned to use a sewing machine as a young child from her mother.[5] Riddell's grandmother, a Canadian textile artist,[6] taught her freeform embroidery when Riddell was ten years old.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Harriet Riddell . InStitchYou Harriet Riddell . en-US . 2019-11-13 .
  2. Web site: Sewing machine portraits powered by bike . 2017-04-05 . BBC News . en . 2019-11-13.
  3. Web site: British textile artist Harriet Riddell will exhibit her India-centric works in London . Thind . Jagmeeta . 2015-05-11 . The Indian Express . en-IN . 2019-11-13.
  4. Web site: Oxfordshire Artweeks . www.artweeks.org . en . 2019-11-13.
  5. Darley . Judy . Summer 2017 . An Interview with Harriet Riddell . Cross Stitcher . 38–39.
  6. Web site: Harriet Riddell interview: Performance textile artist . 2013-11-08 . TextileArtist.org . en-US . 2019-11-13.