Cassie Arnold

Cassie Arnold's exploration of femininity through her knitted mum bra series.

Mulyana

 

'Masks and costumes are seminal expressions in many folkloric traditions and can signify important cultural moments: heroic acts, define religious celebrations, channel spirits, or provide entertainment. Masks in particular are a metaphor for the facades we construct to conceal the ‘true self’ from our neighbors. For Mulyana the impulse behind the Adikara and Nayanika costumed figure installations, are intended to represent the opposite—for him, these avatars more accurately embody his personality than the Mogus characters are able to achieve. These figurative tableaus speak to the universal struggle of becoming comfortable in one's own skin and resonate profoundly as we grapple with this unprecedented era of isolation and uncertainty.' Mulyana

Mulyana makes multi coloured costumes inspired by organic forms from crochet and knitting. These costumes are from his exhibition, 'Fragile Ecologies', features two life-size, hand-knit and crocheted costumes and a series of sumptuously knit coral islands.

            

Cyril Maisonnave

 

Cyril Maisonnave knits cutlery, and it is beautiful, surreal and amazing.

"Between my reflection on knitting and my interest in the forgotten poetry of familiar objects, I therefore naturally associated knitting and cutlery in a process of re-reading daily practices. My cutlery, through their treatments, tell us about their scrapping, their erasure. Their metamorphoses, their assimilations into the natural environment from which their materials come, lead us to a poetic reflection on ourselves ... The object certainly loses its usefulness, but it becomes a catalyst, a revealer of our attitude towards the world." Cyril Maisonnave

As he developes this theme Cyril has recently been dipping his knitted tableware into porcelain. 

Philipa Carruthers

Philipa Carruthers Degree show exhibition at Glasgow School of Art, 'Tales from Scotland' is a scarey selection of knitted balaclavas like those of the 1960s and 70's nightmarish knitting patterns.  

Althea Crome

Artist Althea Crome is a micro knitter who uses silk sewing thread and polished surgical wire as needles. Creating these tiny beauties; Gloves for a spider? Socks for a stag beetle and a jacket fit for a queen bee.

Tracy Widdess

A collaboration focusing on fictional birds from children's books, led to the bird masks above being created by 'brutal knitter' Tracy Widdess and costumes by 'Ant' Babcia Mrówki. Photography is by Tomasz Biskup and Paulina Kania. Art direction, custom-made typography and 3D objects are by Piotr Buczkowski 

Chinami Mori

Chinami Mori weaves using a freestyle Japanese weaving technique known as Saori. Chinami’s 93-year-old grandmother Emiko is often her model, photographed in a burst of colour and their internet fame is spreading. Chinami's weavings alow her to combineamazing colours and textures by using a mixture of colored yarn, string and fabric.

“There are no rules, I can weave as freely and as colorfully as I want.”  Chinami 

Emiko her grandmother spends time at Chinami’s workplace almost every day.

“She’s my favorite person in the whole world,” says Chinami. “I make grandma happy, and that’s just so much fun for me." 

Cirkus Cirkör

   

Circus artists often strive to make the impossible possible. Is striving for world peace an impossible quest? Can the desire for change create change? Can a worldwide knitting for peace movement make a difference? It is easy to give up when confronted with one's own insignificance in comparison to the world's greatness and complexity. Nevertheless, each movement begins with the individual. In this show, we explore the meaning of our aspiration and we'll find out if it's possible to knit peace. Cirkus Cirkör

Wang-Lei Hand

Wang-Lie Hand created these incredibly beautiful garments that have the same visual quality as wool and felt. through a process of knitting toilet paper. His newest work again recreates traditional garment forms, but now Wang Li Hand is incorporating newspaper cuttings that imbue the clothing with social and political meanings.

Neuro Knitting

Thoughts translated into fabric.
Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet have collaborated, merging their talents and specialisms in science and art to create NeuroKnitting where by they transferred thought patterns into knitting patterns.
You can see a film about the project here.