Wen Redmond

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Biography:

Wen Redmond is an internationally recognized mixed media and fiber artist, known for her unique use of fibre, combining photography, paint and stitching into one-of-a-kind artworks. She is a craftswoman of many guises, experimenting with her substrate media and ink-receptive coatings, manipulating her photographic imagery on a screen, collaging, arranging, printing and stitching. Her layered photographic imagery is full of eerie and ethereal energy, leaving the viewer wondering how it was made. Redmond has received numerous awards for her work, including the Acquisition Award at the 2019 Handcrafted Juried Exhibition (Maria V. Howard Arts Center, Rocky Mount, North Carolina) and an Award of Merit at Fiber Arts IX in 2019 (Sebastopol, California). She is regularly invited to show her work and in 2019 she held solo exhibitions at the Ayers Loft Gallery in Lowell, Massachusetts and at the World of Threads Festival Corridor Gallery in Canada. In 2018 her work 'Breaking the Surface!' was exhibited at the International Quilt Show in Texas and she exhibited at Quilt Nihon, Japan. Her work is held in art collections around the world and has been featured in numerous publications including TextileArtist.org, Fiber Art Now and Quilting Arts Magazine. Her book 'Digital Fiber Art' was published in 2017.