Preview: Monday 1 June 5.30pm – 7pm
Michala Gyetvai is an artist and poet based in rural Warwickshire, making large painterly textile works which engage with historic, surreal, and romantic approaches to experiencing the landscape. She paints and sculpts with threads, stitching and layering her images in a variety of materials and employing hand and machine techniques. There is a material aspect to the layers Gyetvai builds in her works. She twists fibres and uses thick wool, crocheted cotton, and fine silks to create an undulating relief, moulding the shapes of the landscape in a sculptural manner.
Her work seeks to capture an emotive and evocative interpretation of nature, which is constantly refined throughout the process of making. The passion and freedom encountered in the immediacy of sketching are developed and channelled through paintings and then consolidated into textile pieces. Labour and repetition are central to this process, and, depending on the scale of the finished textile, can take many months to complete.
