Art to craft
Treasures made by the hands of skillful relatives makes them all the more precious and a delight to pass down the generations.
Embroidery and tapestry add a certain quality of materiality to an image, somehow shifting it away from fine art and placing it within the realm of craft and so can be deliberately used to defy easy categorisation.
Grayson Perry brought art, social observation and tapestry to the mainstream with his six large scale works The Vanity of Small Differences and Maurizio Anzeri transforms found photographs by embroidering on to their unsuspecting subjects.
Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh is a fascinating Tapestry Studio open to the public, where it is possible to watch weavers from a viewing balcony as they work on their latest tapestries. Collaborations include artists such as Patrick Caulfield and David Hockney.
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