3 to 15 March
Sue Stone and Lucy Reid are textile artists united by a shared passion for transforming fabric into compelling works of art.
Sue weaves intricate narratives through stitch, paint, and cloth, while Lucy captures the beauty of landscapes in their vibrant, richly textured textile pieces. Together, they explore the expressive potential of textile and stitch, offering distinctive perspectives on storytelling and the natural world.
Sue Stone is a Grimsby-based artist best known for figurative, narrative textile works, often featuring a fish; a symbol of her heritage. She is an honorary exhibiting member and former Chair (2013–2018) of the internationally renowned 62 Group of Textile Artists, and a Fellow of the Society of Designer Craftsmen.
Her work, which has been exhibited internationally, is inspired by lived experience, observation, and storytelling and is rooted in hand embroidery, often combined with machine stitch, appliqué, and paint. She also devises and teaches online workshops for textileartist.org Stitch Club run by her sons Joe and Sam Pitcher.
Lucy Reid is an artist who works completely in hand stitch. Lucy’s work
investigates intimacy, isolation, wilderness, spirit and sense of place.
The sky holds a particular fascination, as it is never the same, always
changing and dominates the landscape in most parts of their home county of
Lincolnshire. The sky becomes the landscape.
Lucy is in awe of the coast, dunes, fenlands and woodland, quiet spaces in urban areas, that exciting liminal space between field and forest, building and street.
These places arouse different feelings: comforting, unsettling, eerie, lonely, peaceful, they can bring solace and rest, inspiration or a decision to be made. Lucy weaves these feelings into the work.
Each landscape is worked from personal photographs. Working landscapes in miniature creates a close, intimate relationship that is the main drive behind Lucy’s work. By working free style and using threads as ‘paint’, the images can be worked in to and layered up to create depth, and texture, as different coloured threads can be used together.