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Anna Gravelle

  • Textile sculptor
  • Bristol, United Kingdom
  • Master Artisan
Anna Gravelle Textile sculptor
Contact
English, Welsh
Hours:
By appointment only
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Tufting for touch

  • • Anna creates wall hangings and accessories with the tufting technique
  • • She has her own tailor-made tufting machine
  • • Her aim is to create textile creations that are irresistible to the touch

Some of Anna Gravelle’s earliest memories are related to textiles: the softness of a cotton dress, her first cotton t-shirt, a favourite pair of jeans, and many items of Welsh wool clothing that her mother taught her to sew and knit. Anna can still recall the tactility of each item and associates them with comfort and joy. She studied Film and Film Installation and worked as a television producer and director for many years, before turning to the beloved activities of her childhood. Feeling the need to create with her hands again, she enrolled in a master degree course in textile design. It was at that point that she stumbled across a tufting machine for the first time, discovering the technique that she is now best known for.

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Works

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Murmuration I

This embroidered textile wall hanging was made with the tufting technique, using blue and teal polyester thread on a grey melange wool cloth. Exploring painterly strokes, Anna Gravelle represented the movement of birds in the graduating blue threads. The inspiration for this work comes from a family trip to the Somerset Levels to watch the swirling starlings.

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Golden Murmuration

This framed embroidered textile, made with the tufting technique, uses yellow polyester thread on yellow wool cloth. It represents a big yellow sun and was intended to combat the dreariness of winter.

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Tributaries II

This framed embroidered textile was created with the tufting technique. Anna Gravelle used a beige wool cloth as a base, and green, blue, purple, pink and mustard polyester thread fading into each other for an ombré effect.

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Circular Blue Murmuration

This is a soft and tactile embroidered textile, made with the tufting technique. Anna Gravelle used a grey melange wool cloth as a base and blue polyester thread in graduating shades, creating a lunar effect.

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Aerial Charcoal

This frame is one of a series of framed textile artworks around the theme of aerial bird flight and the reed beds they inhabit. This piece was created using dark grey wool cloth as a base, which was tufted with different shades of dark grey metallic polyester threads.

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