Linda Pearl 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.
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.
2026
Sep- Dec – CreweCreates PLATFORM – Crewe
July- Aug - Festival of Quilts – NEC Birmingham
May-July - Voyage 2026 Turku Finland
June - ORDER AND CHAOS TexpoART. Romania
June - Empathy’ – TxT. Slovakia
June – Scythia Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine
April – ‘Dictionary’ Prism Textiles Art Pavilion -London
2025
July - Stitch by Stitch - Oswestry
June - ‘Scythia’ Ivano-Frankivs’k – Ukraine
May - ‘Insert There’ - Bath Fringe Festival - Bath
May – ‘Threads of Connection’ - Cista Arts Online Platform
April – ‘AOB’ Prism Textiles Art Pavilion -London
Feb – Mar - ‘Contemporary Textiles’ – Fronteer Gallery – Sheffield
Feb – Aug ‘15th Open’ Art Grosvenor Museum – Chester
2024
Oct - ‘HIDDEN” – House of Smalls -Edinburgh
Oct - 23rd International Mini Textile Exhibition - Bratislava Slovakia
June – V111 International Triennial of Textile Arts - Szombathely Gallery Hungary
June - The15th International Textile and Fibre Art Biennial “Scythia”, Ivano-Frankivs’k Ukraine.
June -‘Garden of Delights on Earth’ - Gallery 47 – London
April – ‘Edgelands’ Prism Textiles Art Pavilion -London
March – ‘Animals’ Fronteer Gallery -Sheffield – UK
2023
Dec –‘Connections’ Triennial of Mini Textiles 2023 – Sophia -Bulgaria
Sep - Dec ‘Voyage’ Craft Museum of Finland
July – Oct Ferens Art Gallery 2023 Open Exhibition
July ‘Beneath the Earth’ Fronteer Gallery – Sheffield
June Scythia 11th International Mini Textiles Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine
June Scythia 3rd International Macro Textiles Ivano-Frankivs’k, Ukraine
May ‘Trespass’ Fringe Arts Bath (FaB) Festival
May Holborn Group – Guest Artist – Espacio Gallery – London
May TexpoART – International Triennale of Textile Art – IASI – Romania
April – May ‘Warped’ Prism Textile – The Art Pavilion – London
Membership:
Society Designer Craftsmen: https://societyofdesignercraftsmen.org.uk/our-makers/linda-pearl-izan
‘SEW’ Society for Embroidered Work https://www.societyforembroideredwork.com/
ETN – European Textile Network
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
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