About Designer
The Designer
Yiling Wu is a London-based textile designer from Taiwan. Graduated from the London College of Fashion with specialisation in digital embroidery, her experience inspires her to explore relationship between cross-disciplinary materials and embroidery.
Her artistic exploration delves deep into the intricate interplay between traditional and contemporary embroidery. By blending tradition with modernity, her creations exist from fashion, fine art to textile innovation.She inspired by her Asian heritage and perspectives of life, her explorations of embroidery brings new possibilities to the age-old embroidery craftsmanship with the sense of contemporary, controversial and experimental appearence.
Design Approach
Her visionary approach to embroidery focuses on conventional boundaries between 2D and 3D embroidery; how embroidery as a soft material integrates with avant-garde materials such as resin to create 3D sculptural embroidery pieces, which forego the use of fabric to showcase the beauty of embroidery.
She loves to see the breathing space and fluid movement of embroidery during the process of its creation. Traditionally, embroidery carries the impression of luxurious and delicate handworks which are replicated throughout history. However, having developed a soluble embroidery method, her embroidery artworks will never have the same outcome. Even with the same embroidery design, each artwork is individually special and unique.
Inspirations
Her embroidery inspiration comes from a variety of sources; delicate paper cutting during Lunar New year as a child, to traditional Chinese knot with my grandmother. Each one carries the meaning of her cultural heritage when creating my artworks. She transforms them into embroidery with simple playful brush strokes to represent the controversial feeling between delicate embroidery and her designs. She also takes inspiration from observing fleeting moments in our life with a camera and subsequently transforming them into everlasting artworks through my embroidery processes.