South Coast Surface Design Featured Artist Program
New Featured Artist Polly Spenner
We are very excited to announce our new Featured Artist Polly Spenner, a Textile Artist and Painter, concentrating in Jacquard weaving and handloom fabric, sculpture and silkscreen collages.
Polly's methods of translation between illustration, painting, and digital jacquard weaving is beautifully presented in our Winter 2024 gallery exhibit
“Weaving My Own Ocean by Polly Spenner”
Polly Spenner was born in Sydney, Australia and now calls Rhode Island home. She is a graduate of Rhode Island school of Design Textiles Department and Interlochen Arts Academy.
Polly's focus is the connection between human-made objects and their counterparts in nature, intrigued by the shapes and forms observed in daily life experiences.
"In my Jacquard and handloom wovens, paintings and silkscreen collages, bright colors and arching gestures of freeform lines define the spaces inbetween.
My eye gravitates to bold colors and backlite outlines.
The push and pull of the foreground and background overlap with these lines creating an undulating motion causing time to stand still.
The context of the imagery may be soft with raw edges or strong and loud. The resistance of polar magnets is in play. I am drawn to shadows and metallic sparks of light that bounce off buildings, windows and waterways, during the golden hour of each day.
The sound of ocean currents and smell of salt air with the feeling of a biting wind while walking through wooded trails, vast meadows, midnight beach walks - nature is a source of endless inspiration for my artwork." Polly Spenner
Polly's work is in the permanent collection of the Poets House Library of New York City, the Imago Foundation for the Arts, and private collections. We look forward to sharing this wonderful collect of Polly Spenners current and past work in our Winter 2024 gallery exhibit.
