Recovery Quilt 3, Out of the Dirt,
112 x 160 cm
such stuff face on 2
Recovery Quilt 7, You got this Girl,
98 x 98 cm
as quick detail 4 low def
Recovery Quilt 1, Let Go,
96 x 96 cm
as quick as foxes on the hill
Recovery Quilt 1, Let Go, detail
such stuff detail 11
such stuff detail Central panel
Karina Thompson
UK
Karina sees herself essentially as a storyteller. Sometimes the story is big, like the cause of a terminal illness, and sometimes it is small, like the tale of a single heartbeat. Sometimes the story is just breaking, for example how chromasomes can now be seen and adapted, and sometimes it is old, like the burial of a medieval leper. She is a storyteller with threads and fabric as her words.
Digital technology has changed forever the way we discover, comprehend and create. Karina is intrigued by how we process and communicate data: there is often a paradox between the importance of that data and its intellegibility to the uninitiated. And just as digital technology is changing the way we understand the world around us, it is changing the way Karina works with textiles.
She uses computer programmed sewing machines and digital print on to fabric to make art quilts. These can range from a large-scale installation that will fill a room to an incidental addition to an archive's display case, or a banner for a public space to an intimate artpiece for a private room.
Recent work has focused on making as a metaphor for her own mental health recovery.