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Mick Lindberg

Mick Lindberg's second exhibition at the gallery, 'Stitched Stories', will open on Saturday November 14th (until December 12th)

She Eloped with the Spring Wind, 2015. Please click to see an enlarged image

She Eloped with the Spring Wind, 2015
99 x 82 cm



Born in Sweden in 1950, Mick Lindberg learned the art of needlework from her mother and grandmother. Throughout her life, her passion for textiles and fashion has influenced her career choices, first as model and photographer, now as a textile artist.

“I often receive, through the generosity of friends, bags & boxes with old cloth & fabrics, that for years have been hiding in attics and basements and cupboards. Neatly folded remnants of vintage fabrics... dusty William Morris linen and antique lace happily abandon their confinement into my hands... and start to weave their tale.

From such a fragment of cloth, sometime a whole character emerges, like a genie from a bottle.. evoking the memory of someone's grandmother, or maybe a naughty aunt.

I’m often asked from where I draw the inspiration for my characters, I always say - ‘they come to me’.

The fabric fragments from friends give me a sense of continuity, where I’m allowed to stitch my own story... in between the layering of memory & time.”

— Mick Lindberg, 2015

A selection of works from the exhibition

A Golden Bird and a Mermaid in Disguise. Please click to see an enlarged image

A Golden Bird and a Mermaid in Disguise
92 x 66 cm

The Crimson Journey. Please click to see an enlarged image

The Crimson Journey
93 x 70 cm

The Scent of Lapsang Souchong. Please click to see an enlarged image

The Scent of Lapsang Souchong
100 x 66 cm

The Joyous Life. Please click to see an enlarged image

The Joyous Life
115 x 82 cm

She Wore a Red Apron. Please click to see an enlarged image

She Wore a Red Apron
103 x 68 cm

To Hold an Angel or Two. Please click to see an enlarged image

To Hold an Angel or Two
101 x 71 cm

I Met a Flower, She was Blue. Please click to see an enlarged image

I Met a Flower, She was Blue
102 x 93 cm

Deer Dreaming. Please click to see an enlarged image

Deer Dreaming
75 x 83 cm

Yemaya. Please click to see an enlarged image

Yemaya
99 x 73 cm

Summer Solstice. Please click to see an enlarged image

Summer Solstice
80 x 60 cm

Hilda Loves her Twins. Please click to see an enlarged image

Hilda Loves her Twins
84 x 86 cm

The Matchstick Girl. Please click to see an enlarged image

The Matchstick Girl
86 x 60 cm

Tundra. Please click to see an enlarged image

Tundra
85 x 62 cm

Wallflower. Please click to see an enlarged image

Wallflower
117 x 65 cm

Gaugin's Granddaughter. Please click to see an enlarged image

Gaugin's Granddaughter
99 x 69 cm

Chapeau. Please click to see an enlarged image

Chapeau
64 x 44 cm