CQ West: Unfolding Stories 4

CHRISTINE SEAGER
www.chrisse.co.uk
Circles, whole, sliced, segmented and broken meld with other
shapes and colour dominating my textile art. My designs are
simple, stark and often repetitive. The designs start as
monoprints on paper – a wonderful, messy process. Potential
icons are isolated, traced and scaled up to make paper
patterns. These are cut out in fabric and pieced. Once
layered up, the fabric tops are stitched, usually with simple
parallel lines, either on a domestic machine or my longarm.
My go to preference is abstract design but I also work with
text, drawing and mark making to produce social and
political art quilts. This genre causes much artistic conflict – my
social themes are about the textile industry’s bad practices,
unsafe working conditions and environmental issues created
by fabric and garment production. I love dyeing my own new
cloth which is environmentally unacceptable. A dilemma yet
to be resolved!!