An Interview with TextileArtist.org

Recently, I was interviewed by the lovely people at TextileArtist.org. They asked me about how I got into textiles, my working process, and what inspires me. Called 'To construct and deconstruct', here's a little glimpse at what got said!

TextileArtist.org: What initially captured your imagination about textile art?

Christina Hesford: Of all the arts, textile art drew me in because it is tangible. Textiles are about tactility, about the physical relationship between our bodies and what we experience through touch.

I realised quite quickly as an artist that every material we have a relationship with is in some way a textile, from granite to silk, from the wind to latex, which makes textiles a very free and exciting place to work!

Have you always been interested in textiles?

Growing up in Indonesia, I was surrounded by colourful and vibrant textiles. There is such a rich heritage of cloth-making in that part of the world, such as batik and ikat, and I’m sure...