Lorenzo Nannie

Lorenzo Nannie is an embroidery artist who’s work explores organic forms through the use of making shapes from heavy wools and adding detailing trough beading and stitch.  I find his work interesting as the pieces stand alone as artefacts that study natural structure. They have great attention to detail and use colour in a subtle way. This is something that I should learn and take inspiration from to help with dying my fabrics in a sophisticated manor. He has titled some of his work as ‘specimens’, I found this an interesting way of labelling work as it suggests that the pieces are quite analytical and are studies of something bodily. I found correlation here between my work and the work of Nannie as a visceral quality has been continuously noted upon within my work. I like the way he looks at and object or surface and then translates this through embroidery to give some representation of the original item, this is a way of working that I feel that I naturally follow. 

lorenzo Nannie, specimens- Muridae-2010 and 93300-2007, http://www.lorenzonanni.com/?cat=22