Jackie Steven - Artist

printmaker, jewellery, artist

Craft as thrift, as transformation, and reinvention

Copper wires salvaged from damaged flex, become spider legs for an enamel brooch.

Something treasured

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Printed on vintage hand-embroidered linens, these swans are available to purchase from my Etsy store. To make best use of tiny scraps, black swans are also available, which I have pieced together from smaller parts, then dyed black. The fabrics are so gorgeous, theses swans are my celebration of the time and creativity which has created the material treasures.

Layers of life in drips of paint

Even making bag handles from an old wardrobe was a surprisngly symbolic project. When I laid out my templates to cut out the bag handles, I could see that there had been layers of paint splashes on the top of the wardrobe, in blue and pink, suggesti… — Even making bag handles from an old wardrobe was a surprisngly symbolic project. When I laid out my templates to cut out the bag handles, I could see that there had been layers of paint splashes on the top of the wardrobe, in blue and pink, suggesting layers of family life. I have kept these splashes in the finished bag - which is made from an old leather coat and lined with fabric from a skirt.

A broken chair becomes a collection of wooden beads

Jewellery incorporating re-used and repurposed materials, is available to purchase from my Etsy store.

Denim from worn out clothing can still be be a cute pair of jeans, combined with linoprint on linen from a shirt, backed with patterned bedding from cotton sheet. Dolls are available to purchase from my Etsy store.

Stitched concrete, and other thoughts...

Stitched cast concrete art sculpture installation

From how to why?

Craft can be a place where mending and making have equal status, and where processes can ask why make anything at all? My intention with a stitched concrete project, was to ask these questions through experiment with materials, to practically and thematically juxtapose the hard exteriority of concrete with domestic soft nurturing spaces.

Sometimes, the best way to say something important, is to make something by hand