Alysn Midgelow-Marsden
Auckland, Auckland
Inspirer, energiser, facilitator and maker of lyrical, fluid sculptural works using textile based techniques.
MessageAlysn is an experienced freelance artist in fine art textiles, an author, tutor and former gallery director. Awards include the Bernina Award for the most Innovative use of the sewing machine, NZ, 2015. She was awarded a 2(I) Joint Honours Degree in Marine Biology and Biochemistry from Bangor University (Wales) and a Ph.D. in Biochemical Systematics from Loughborough University (UK). In addition Midgelow-Marsden has professional qualifications in Textiles and Embroidery, Professional Arts Practice, E-commerce.
She has an experimental and curious nature leading to continuously evolving works and media; investigating new dimensions as they develop. Materials include copper, stainless steel and other metal and woven metal fabric, wire, thread, paint and more.
Alysn lived in the Midlands of England for most of her life, moving to New Zealand in 2012. Her time consists of working from her studio and travelling to deliver workshops around the world. She finds that it is a continuing pleasure to adapt ideas into formats which can be taken on by fibre artists, embroiderers or other creatives.
Statement
Alysn Midgelow-Marsden (she/her) is a British born, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland region artist.
She is a maker of inspiring and visually compelling forms comprising three-dimensional lines, structures and patterns, recently described as ‘capturing the texture of a feeling’.
Alysn creates wall based and free-standing forms of complex yet lyrical fluidities which invite you explore intimate, often visceral, interactions with your own experience.
The works show both physical and psychological articulations, connections and movements. Her work concentrates on the beauty, raw energy and challenges of body, of place and nods to the stereotypes associated with textiles and stitch. They create a dynamic space in which you find tensions and strange interactions.
Alysn has a reputation as a sophisticated and accomplished contemporary textile artist whose work defies the stereotypes of textile and stitch. She was recently described as an inspirer, energiser and innovator. She has exhibited in the UK, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Australia.
Recent awards for selected exhibitions include: Mandurah Wearable Art (Australia) for ‘What Lies Beneath’; ‘Wall Brooches II’, (Australia) for ‘Taniwha’; ‘Changing Threads’ Nelson Arts ‘Bernina Award’ for ‘The Space Between VII’.
Alysn is an interdisciplinary artist working across textile, sculpture and installation to create lyrical, magical works which celebrate connections.
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