sue reddish

UK

A theatre director for many years, Sue Reddish now works in textiles and film making, mainly in Manchester and the High Peak, Derbyshire. As an artist, her primary focus is in textiles, creating abstract urban landscapes influenced by the city around her. She also has extensive experience of creating socially engaged work, in both textile and film, with diverse groups of participants.

Sue has developed her own mixed media process that combines paint, print and prominently hand stitch. Whilst the final pieces are often abstract, they are based on observation of the world around her. Her current work is about a city that is changing and modernising, she is interested ultimately in our place in the world: where and what we call home and how the physical and changing nature of that impacts on us over time. Sue is drawn to the accidental marks, patina and general wear and tear of this urban space where she records the abstract marks of the city. She is particularly interested in researching and presenting the often untold stories of a place or of group of people and her previous career as a theatre director still influences her desire to find and share stories in her textile work. She is drawn to the gritty rather than the pretty, the worn and used in contrast with the new.

Instagram: @suereddishart

Website: www.suereddish.com

Website: www.thebroadwaytextilegroup.co.uk