In this workshop, Natalya Hughes will lead participants through techniques she employed to create her rugs in The Interior. You will use punch-needle tufting to create your own textile work to take home. Punch needling follows the same technique as the mechanised tufting-gun process and is inexpensive and easy to learn. Design your own motif—drawn from personal experience—to tuft.
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Natalya Hughes’s multidisciplinary practice is concerned with decorative and ornamental traditions and their associations with the feminine, the body and excess. Through painting, textiles, sculpture and installation, her recent bodies of work investigate the relationship between modernist painters and their anonymous women subjects. Using the life and work of major twentieth-century male artists Willem de Kooning and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, as well archival case studies of Sigmund Freud, Hughes seeks to examine society’s ‘problems’ with women and the fraught associations that have ultimately determined them.
Natalya Hughes 'The Interior', work in progress, 2022. Photo: Charlie Hillhouse.
