Project Description
the stones of venice
2000
drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk, set in plaster with a painted wood frame
private collection
made for the exhibition Art of The Stitch 2001 at the Mall Galleries, London, and Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead. It alludes to John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice. Source material for this piece comes various locations in Venice including St Mark’s, the Ca d’Oro and Torcello cathedral