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Aiveen Daly

  • Textile sculptor
  • London, United Kingdom
  • Rising Star
Aiveen Daly Textile sculptor
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The soft touch of a textile maven

  • • Aiveen fashions her interior designs like couture garments
  • • She sculpts, stitches, beads, smocks, pleats and ties her fabrics
  • • She works on projects for luxury hotels, yachts and private residences

Born in Ireland, Aiveen Daly originally studied business studies and Russian in Dublin. She lived in Moscow, St Petersburg and Sydney, worked in marketing management, before settling in London. This is where she realised she had another calling. Aiveen enrolled in evening classes and learned furniture upholstery. Over the years, she has honed her skills and developed her own innovative and intricate manipulation techniques, to become a sought-after specialist in interior textile upholstery. Aiveen weaves her love of couture fashion into a range of projects from re-upholstering services to creating bespoke pieces of furniture and surfaces internationally. Unashamedly glamourous and with a penchant for sumptuous materials, Aiveen has created a body of work synonymous with sophisticated detailing and refined embellishments.

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Works

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Arbus

This textile artwork is adorned with ethereal leaves and butterflies delicately beaded with tiny bronze and pearl seed beads, hand painted with vibrant gold leaf effect on a contrasting matte canvas of snow white suede.

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Coralation

This ribbon sculpture, inspired by the fluidity of the ocean and the intricacy of underwater corals, focuses on the negative spaces and shadowing between the ribbon strands. Hundreds of metres are painstaking pleated in correlating rhythmic circles.

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Rose

Taking inspiration from flowers in the nearby London parks, this textile artwork depicts hand carved rose petals and leaves sculpted from tonal soft pink suede to give the subtlest shadow and light play.

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Blossom

This textile artwork has been delicately hand carved to evoke an ethereal beauty. Blossom is part of a series of 3D floral studies in snow white, sculpted from wire and suede with a touch of tiny hand placed pearls.

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Wisteria

Wisteria climbs the walls of Aiveen Daly’s London studio. Here Aiveen carves leather and delicately inserts tiny suede petals and leaves. She uses the quietest cloud white colour and contrasting materials to maximise the focus on texture and light.

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