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Illustration: Jennifer Gaye. Ocean Current Series 1 Textiles as a medium, is broad and complex. It has a history that is domestic, as well as aesthetic, practical, as well as decorative, singularly one dimensional, as well as infinitely multi-dimensional. It is this dichotomy between textile as functional fabric, and textile as expressive artform, that helps to give broad expression to the textile world, but it can also, at the same time, make it difficult to understand what textile as art really is, and where it fits into the great complexity that is the creative arts. Where textiles as art finds its eventual place, is still an ongoing one. That more and more artists and designers are turning towards the broadening of the scope of textile art as an expression of themselves and the world they both see and interact with, has changed the surface of textiles as art, literally. Illustration: Jennifer Gaye. Ocean Hollow Series 1 Illustration: Jennifer Gaye. Ocean Hollow Series 2 The textile...

Illustration: Flower Boy , 2015 (fabric, thread, screen-printing ink, fusible adhesive) China Marks is an artist that was originally a sculptor, but over the years the artist has moved into textiles, and now produces a range of individualistic fabric-based compositions. China is best known for her large format drawings, which take the form of fabric collages. Source materials for these collages often include an eclectic range, such as old commercial tapestry reproductions of historical paintings, pieces of found fabrics, various embroidery pieces, and general ephemera.  Over long periods these eclectic raw materials are cut up by China, then formed, added to, removed from, and reformed, the process being repeated over and over, until both materials and process produce the desired effect that she wants to see within a composition.  Illustration: All Kinds of Lost , 2015 (fabric, thread, fusible adhesive) Illustration: Better Living Through Chemistry , 2013 (fabric, tea-dyed la...