Grafting Propriety: From Stitch to the Drawn Line

The book explores how textile methodology can be recreated in drawing, the drawn stitched line and how textile agendas can be addressed without the use of the material. Using a recent textile research residency and solo exhibition titled Stitch and Peacock, at The Collection Museum, Lincoln, as the starting point to focus on a particular thread of Maier?s work related to drawing. The publication also looks at other recent works created from an international residency held within the abandoned Spode factory; research projects involving the use of digital embroidery combined with the drawn line; and works using historical, popular surface pattern. The book includes photographs of the archival pieces and new artworks, earlier works as well as essays written by leading experts. It accompanies the Stitch and Peacock exhibition and acts as a resource and documentation for the overall project, in which Maier has taken a rarely seen embroidered Jacobean bedspread as a starting point to create a series of new works which are rooted within the Lincolnshire textile collection, and history of embroidery.

Emma Cocker: Cocker is a writer and artist operating under the title Not Yet There, her research often addresses the endeavour of creative labour, focusing on models of (art) practice and subjectivity that resist or refuse the pressure of a single or stable position by remaining willfully unresolved. Cocker is currently working as Reader in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University.

Danica Maier: Maier is an artist whose practice often references textiles but seldom uses them directly in her work. Originally from the USA, Danica Maier completed an MFA in painting before receiving an MA in Textiles from Goldsmiths in 2002. Starting off her early career working as a studio assistant at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. She has gone on to exhibit and curate exhibitions nationally and internationally including a major exhibition of work by British based artists Unpicked and Dismantled, as part of the Kaunas Art Biennale; Intraducible, solo touring exhibition using traditional Paraguayan Nanduti lace as starting, touring to Museo del Barro, Asuncion, Paraguay, Universidad de Artes Ciencias y Comunicación Gallery, Santiago, Chile and Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre Gallery, London; textile research residency with Gasworks/VASL (Karachi, Pakistan). Maier currently works as a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University.

Dr. Lisa Vinebaum: Lisa Vinebaum is an interdisciplinary artist, critical writer and curator .