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I create my art works by sewing with wheat straw braid - a traditional millinery material. I’ve always been drawn to creating beauty from humble materials and reinterpreting them in a new way. After many years of sewing with straw for my hat brand The Brim Label, I’ve recently reimagined how I work with millinery straw, challenging its intended use by manipulating the braid into bold, fluid artworks. Individual strands of wheat straw braid are sewn side by side, then hand stitched with an embroidery thread atop a background of either paper or sinamay (a woven natural fibre derived from the banana plant family).

I've shared close up and 'in progress' photos of these artworks on my Instagram @thebrimlabel so I'd recommend taking a look there too.

'Momentum' 78cm x 105cm

AVAILABLE - email for more info: emma@thebrimlabel.com

'Surrender' 65cm x 86cm

AVAILABLE via MUSE GALLERY

'Evolving #2' 34.5cm x 54cm

AVAILABLE - email for more info: emma@thebrimlabel.com

Wheat braid straw, sinamay, cotton embroidery thread. Framed in American Ash timber, custom hand-scalloped edge with a dark brown stain and Danish oil finish. 99% UV filtering anti-reflective Museum glass.

'Evolving #4' 45.5cm x 42.5cm

AVAILABLE - email for more info: emma@thebrimlabel.com

'See 04' 37.5cm x 42cm

AVAILABLE via MUSE GALLERY

Black wheat braid straw, cotton paper, embroidery thread. Float framed on archival backing, framed in raw Ash timber. 99% UV filtering anti-reflective Museum glass.

'See 03' 37.5cm x 42cm

AVAILABLE via MUSE GALLERY

Brown wheat braid straw, cotton paper, embroidery thread. Float framed on archival backing, framed in raw Ash timber. 99% UV filtering anti-reflective Museum glass.

'See 01' SOLD 37.5cm x 42cm

'See 02' SOLD 37.5cm x 42cm

'Waves of curiosity' SOLD 74cm x 89cm

'Connection' (Diptych) SOLD 53cm x 43cm each

'Leaping' SOLD 48cm x 64cm

'Evolving #1' SOLD 50cm x 48cm

'Evolving #3' SOLD 49.5cm x 44cm