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Siân Martin

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Tread Softly

Footsteps across a path of tiny fragments assembled with stitch refer to a quote from the poem by W B Yeats, “I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

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Tread Softly detail

A close-up detail of Tread Softly

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Life Line

The lower section of a column of punched and threaded papers to symbolises the long tunnel drilled to rescue the 33 Chilean miners from the collapsed copper mine in Chile

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Life Line + detail

A close-up detail showing the printed text which tells the story of the rescue

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Watching and Waiting along the Faultline

Manipulated stitched paper textile forming a fault line formation in the earth’s crust, thinking of all friends in Japan and New Zealand

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How Green is my Valley

A green curtain stitched with childhood photographs forms a suspended valley formation to hold memories of a Welsh home

Artist statement

Siân Martin has been a maker of textile art since she graduated from Birmingham Polytechnic with a BA Hons and MA in Embroidery. She exhibits with the 62 Group of Textile Artists, and Stitch Textile Artists, as well as the Textile Study Group. Siân uses small pieces of cloth, re-cycled papers and stitch to make textiles that can be manipulated and draped into forms that refer to landscape forms. Many of these hint at a global message or comment on a recent event.

Siân gained her Art Teachers Diploma from the University of Leicester after graduating from Birmingham and enjoys teaching and encouraging others to experiment and explore their ideas through textiles. Siân offers textile workshops and lectures to Embroiderers' Guild Branches and Textile Groups both in this country and abroad.

Siân Martin set up the 'Distant Stitch' website as a way of offering embroidery courses by correspondence in 1991. Distant Stitch has now expanded and Siân now directs a small team of tutors who offer a range of online Courses in Embroidery and other textile topics

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