Shadow Finder N. 1 (2019)
Francesca Miotti uses hand-weaving as her main media, approaching the contrasting structural and sensory qualities of materials to create tridimensional and layered forms which aim to challenge the usual idea of cloth. She uses the technical and traditional sides of this process to combine different natural fibers and paper yarns that, woven in a flat form, come alive once the piece is cut off the loom and finished.
In her research she is inspired by the relationships between people’s senses and objects or materials, and by the spontaneous acts of exploration towards something new. Each of her pieces is a woven embodiment of an act of interaction through sight, touch or sound, and an ode to the endless discovery of every experience, physical or virtual, that is encountered throughout life.
Bio
Francesca Miotti is an Italian hand-weaver and textile artist based in London. She graduated in 2020 from the Textile Design BA course at Central Saint Martins, specializing in woven textiles. She has then received the Cockpit Arts/ Clothworkers Award 2020, through which she gained her current studio space at Cockpit Arts in Deptford, London.
She has recently shown her work at the Crafts Council Gallery in London, during the Future Edit exhibition, and at CICA Museum in South Korea.
Alongside her weaving practice, since her graduation she has been researching about the introduction of textile techniques and materials in early education, especially in the context of the Reggio Emilia Approach.
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