SUSAN KISTNER

TEXTILE ARTIST

I am a Textile Artist based in the Lincolnshire coast.  
I graduated from London Metropolitan university in 2016 with a degree in Textiles and then studied at University of the Arts at Chelsea completing my studies in 2019 with an MA in Textiles before moving to Lincolnshire where my practice is now based.

I work with digital and hand made processes and use simple repetitive motives and images to explore specific themes. I am drawn to explore the act of seeing as the window is a recurring theme in my work. The effects of light, textures and how this changes at different times of the day and under different circumstance, my work is time based. I choose materials carefully in order to explore perceptions about interior exterior space and how my work can be translated into three dimensional forms.

Being a fine and textile artist my work crosses boundaries in order to question the viewers appreciation of the meaning of textiles. I enjoy the versatility of working with cloth as a material and its endless possibilities that can take the work in an unknown direction, and the effects of the material and texture when translated and understood.

Since embarking on fine art training, my work has taken a different direction. I am drawn to explore audience based photography using the digital and hand and screen-prints to explore the everyday landscape through the transient object as a method of communication.

I have exhibited in the past and open to commissions both private and public.    
If you are interested in my work please contact me directly to discuss further.





susan.kistner@mail.com www. bright-hopes.com

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Statement

Although trained in textiles my work is diverse as based on an interest in fine art and installation. The combination of  digital and handmade and natural  dyes are important  feature of my practice as well as the materials the fabric chosen and the processes that evolve. 

Education

2021 OCA Fine Art

2019 UAL Chelsea Textiles MA

 2016 London met BA (Hons) Textiles

2013 Open University BSc Health and Social Care 


Professional experience

Experience has included invigilating exhibitions at the Barbican.  Competitions include runner up ‘Migraine Images’, MOMA, as part of an Arts Management course assisted in organizing an exhibition of arts education based at Waterford's Art Centre. Worked at Action Space and exhibited in Covent Garden and City Lit Illustrators. Features include Women’s hour BBC Radio 4, published work in Spare Rib, The Ecology Magazine, She Magazine, Prisma greeting cards, Brixton Artists Collective, local newspaper articles. The Cosmic arcana and The Women’s Artists slide library catalogue ‘The Art of Birth’   2021 calendar Louth Riverhead theatre supported by the Arts council England, Dwell time Lockdown Blues publication.2021.

Exhibitions

2021 Riverhead Theatre Louth

2019 MA Textiles graduation show

2016 The Cass, Making Matters’, The London Design Festival






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