Linda Izan
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Although I have actively chosen to work with and develop textile techniques and skills during the past several years, my creative practice is not exclusively within this area. I am also keen to access and exploit mixed media, photography and digital media.
My work focuses on social issues. I allow the current given theme to predicate the choice of materials; materials that would add to the dialogue. For example, if I am dealing with unwanted objects thrown into skips (as in my on-going body of work ‘Waste Embellishment’) I will use gold leaf or marbled velvet to emphasis what is valued and what is not.
When the narrative is focused on human rights, as in my work ‘We Warned You’ which deals with the issue of Domestic Abuse, I set up an installation mirroring a crime scene. Here I replicated the appearance of police cordon tape, digitally printing on the tape statistics on the impact of budget cuts to Refuges. Increasingly I have used text in my work. The text is there to ensure that the message is explicit, as my aim is to highlight the human experiences lived in a world, which increasingly questions the status quo.
In general the impetus for work might be immediate or might develop over several years; with collection of photographic, video research and the exploration of public and world issues via the media and social media. Also important to me, is the connection with other artists. Although I do not share a studio with a creative group, preferring to work in my own space, I do connect on a regular basis with the excellent art collective ‘Fabric of Protest’ a Manchester based group. Within the group ideas are brought to the forum and developed as well as new skills explored.
In September 2018, I was accepted as a member of the prestigious international exhibiting group Prism Textiles. In October 2018, I was also accepted as a member of S.E.W. (The Society for Embroidered Work). Both groups invited me to exhibit with them in 2019.
My work continues to be exhibited locally within the North West, Nationally and Internationally with my work highlighted on social media and within printed publications.
2022
May Contemporary Textiles – Fronteer Gallery - Sheffield
April ‘Untold’ Prism Textile – The Art Pavillon - London
April Feb -May Ferens Art Gallery 2022 Open Exhibition - Hull
2021
2021 Nov The Knitting & Stitching Self Portrait Competition Harrogate
2021 Oct Prism Textiles The Art Pavilion Mile End London
2021 Oct The Knitting & Stitching Self Portrait Competition Alexandra Palace
2021 Oct British Textile Biennial: Stitch Your Story 2021 Blackburn
2021 July ‘The World We Live In’ Groningen, the Netherlands
2021 July 'Let Us Eat Cake' - Pineapple Black Arts Middlesbrough UK
2021 June 'Voices of Earth Virtual Exhibition' – Art from Heart
2021 June 10th International Mini Textile Art Exhibition "Scythia"
2nd International Micro Textile Art Exhibition "Scythia
Ivano-Frankivs’k Gallery – Ukraine
2021 March What does International Women’s Day mean to you? MCR Manchester
2021 March In Celebration of Woman – New Haus & Kofferraum Haus Gallery
2021 March Let Us Eat Cake – Online Exhibition
2020 Dec TexpoART Textile Art International Triennial 5th Edition ‘Dream’
Victoria & Theodor Pallady Art Galleries - Iasi – Romania
2020 August 'Ordinary No-Ordinary' Tall Sequoia Gallery - Toronto Canada
2020 July 'Text on Textiles ' Online Exhibition San José MQT USA
2020 July Interview 'Meet The Artist' Arnold’s Attic
2020 June Featured work Prism Virtual FESTIVAL
2020 May In Search of (IM) POSSIBILITIES PRISM Textiles -
Online Exhibition
2020 Feb - April Ferens Art Gallery 2020 Open Exhibition - Hull
2020 January ‘Know Your Meme’ San José MQT USA
2019
2019 December 'The Fronteer Open'
35 Chapel Walk Gallery Sheffield
2019 December ‘Falling Walls’ Nau Arts Gallery Cheltenham
2019 November S.E.W. Contemporary Stitched Art
Clerkenwell Gallery London
2019 November ‘Falling Walls’ John Street Gallery Stroud
2019 September FiLiA – Women’s Art Atelier London
2019 Oct- Jan 'Know Your Meme'
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
2019 October Prism Textile Group Exhibition - RBSA
2019 May – June 'Fragility' Prism Textile Group Exhibition
Hoxton Arches London
2019 April - May Friends of the Whitworth Manchester
CASS Arts
2019 March WordPower: Language as Medium
LibraryX Publication
2018
2018 December Open Art - Isherwood Gallery Wigan
2018 July -Sept 'Fabric of Protest'
Manchester Peoples History Museum
2018 March 'Fighting Talk' SheFest Sheffield
35 Chapel Walk Gallery
2016
2016 October Open Art - Castle Park Frodsham
2016 September ‘Textiles 21’ Group Exhibition
World of Glass St Helens
Membership:
Prism Textile Group http://www.prismtextiles.co.uk/
‘SEW’ Society for Embroidered Work https://www.societyforembroideredwork.com/
ETN – European Textile Network
Fabric of Protest Manchester Peoples History Museum
Qualifications:
- Wolverhampton Polytechnic - B.A(Hons) 3-D Design Ceramics
- Liverpool Polytechnic - A.T.D. (Art Teachers Diploma)
- Staffordshire University - Postgraduate Diploma Design CAD/CAM
- Coventry University M.A. Electronic-Art Coventry
