Jennifer Collier
Jennifer creates innovative textile and craft pieces. Through methods of weaving, waxing, bonding, fusing, trapping, embedding and stitching the artist creates unusual materials, which are then developed into garments and accessories. Jennifer investigates the ways in which materials can be reused and transformed. Her work is available at galleries nationwide, most notably at The Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She has exhibited at Origin, the UK’s premier selected craft fair for the last two years and has had work featured in magazines such as Elle Decoration, Brides, Living and most recently the Times Magazine. Much of the work, such as the dresses and shoes, are non-functional and in these the artist aims to encourage people to speculate on the nature of value; creating work from items that would otherwise be thrown away and commenting on their preciousness, particularly once lost.