Richard McVetis

April 5th - July 30th 2022

Solo show at the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham, curated by Director of the International Textile Research Centre Professor Lesley Millar.

Ink on paper.

10 x 14cm

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An installation of hand-embroidered cubes based on the composite number sixty and the systems in which we measure time. Each cube measures sixty millimetres in height, width, and depth – the scale and proportion relating to ‘the hand’ and the process of making itself. The cubes are presented in a sequence, recording time through multiples of hand-embroidered dots measured in increasing and enforced increments of one hour. Starting with the first cube at one hour of stitching and finishing on the sixtieth and final cube with sixty hours of stitching. First exhibited at Collect Open 2017. Supported with funding from the Arts Council England. Shortlisted for the 2018 Loewe Craft Prize and part of Form + Motion, a British Council and Crafts Council exhibition, at the 2017 Cheongju Craft Biennial.

Hand embroidery, cotton on wool
6 × 6 × 6cm (each), Installation 100 × 320cm, 2017

An evolution of the past, a rearrangement, and reconstruction of twelve objects to form a new order.

Hand embroidery, cotton on wool
32 × 36cm, 2019

Courtesy of Huddersfield Art Gallery.

A series of hand-embroidered cubes exploring the passage of time, visualising and making time tactile and tangible. Each cube is considered individually and as a whole, repetitive and varied, with an irrational, obsessive quality, created through the random process of embroidery. However, the grid gives the impression of uniformity, infinity, an attempt to control the uncontrollable.

Hand embroidery, cotton on wool
10 × 10 × 10cm / 10 × 10 × 10cm / 8 × 8 × 8cm / 6 × 6 × 6cm / 6 × 6 × 6cm, 2022

Enquire richard@richardmcvetis.co.uk

Hand embroidery, cotton on wool
5 × 5 × 5cm (each), 2019

Courtesy of Huddersfield Art Gallery