textiles - wall hung

the kennedys & the wises drawing, painting & machine embroidery on silk 2020 alan & emma 164x94cm the kennedys 115x106cm the wises 81x63cm private commission Paddy was commissioned to make three portraits of a family, the Kennedys & the Wises, for the staircase in their Georgian rectory. They are dressed in period costume and are [...]

Paddy Killer private commission illustrates Dante's Canto 3

The Eyes Have It 2025 20 x 187cm drawing, painting & bonding on recycled cotton sheet Made for the 62 Group exhibition Joy in the Detail at Crafts Study Centre, Farnham. ARTISTS STATEMENT Glimpses of a year in which Horace & Paddy had eye surgery, & ongoing problems. Paddy’s 2nd cataract op went wrong, Horace [...]

Changes of Use – The Moving History of the Moorbys and the Reeds by Paddy Killer 2021 drawing in ink on cotton, washing line & wooden pegs overall size 214x43cm pillowcases 55.5x40cm each selected for The British Textile Biennial Connected Cloth – Exploring the global nature of textiles a 62 Group exhibition at The Whitaker, Rossendale, [...]

ANATOMY OF CHANGE drawing and painting on silk, painted wood, string, a nail h188.54xw91cm 2018 ARTISTS STATEMENT “The outside of you belies what is going on inside”, is what my great friend, Vicky Watling, my art teacher at school, says about me. The pain causing autoimmune diseases began at school, but it was years later [...]

belgian bobbin lace 2017 drawing in white ink on glass 30x30cm one of a series of drawings on glass made for Paddy's exhibition Drawn Thread Work - samplers & specimens at Customs House Gallery, South Shields from 17.11.17 to 31.03.18. This drawing is sourced from the belgian bobbin lace in various textile collections

anatomy of change drawing and painting on silk, painted wood, string, a nail h188.54xw91cm 2018 ARTISTS STATEMENT “The outside of you belies what is going on inside”, is what my great friend, Vicky Watling, my art teacher at school, says about me. The pain causing autoimmune diseases began at school, but it was years later [...]

the brit and the great bear 129x93cm 2016 Drawing, painting and machine embroidery on silk. Painted wooden frame. Made for the 62 Group exhibition, Making Space, at Macclesfield Silk Museum from 18.05.16 to 03.09.16. Then touring to the Spring Knitting and Stitching Show at Olympia in London from 2 to 5 March 2017, then touring to the [...]

living at belsay exhibition 1996 a contemporary approach to furnishing an historic house : 4 may - 25 october 1996, belsay hall, northumberland In 1995 Paddy was awarded a Northern Arts Major Award to develop new work with diaphanous fabrics, the first of which wase shown in the Pillar Hall as part of Living at Belsay project at [...]

in the palmhouse 1983 42x43 cm private collection machine embroidered satin and cotton organdie velvet frame This piece won the First Prize in Rachel B. Kay-Shuttleworth Competition for Embroidery at Gawthorpe Hall near Burnley, Lancashire.