Iseult Pigot
About
Iseult Pigot is a designer and visual artist based in London, creating graphic work, publications and typefaces using primarily stitching, embroidery and mending. Her material-based approach uses traditional textile crafts to protest feminist issues through the lens of ‘craftivism’. Although textiles play a central role, her approach is interdisciplinary – she translates tactility and hand-crafted processes into digital formats, as well as using her skills in graphic design and communication to create intricate works.
Her final MA project It all comes undone explores stitching as a form of protest. A publication archives a collection of items from her great-grandmother and grandmother’s bridal trousseau. By retracing the history of embroidery and the ties between needlework and activism, the trousseau and its meaning come undone and are resituated within the context of craftivism. Accompanying this publication are three mended and embroidered tea towels. Rather than being discarded, they become banners, protesting against the current collapse of our rights and environment, while celebrating needlework and the women who practice it and speak through it.
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