Tamara Russell is a Textile Artist and passionate advocate of sustainable living based in Melbourne. I specialise in free machine embroidery, hand stitching and mending exploring my surroundings and interpreting what I see through the medium of embroidery. In creating my Textile Kintsugi pieces I use the principles of Kintsugi, a Japanese repair method, as a process to recreate discarded ceramics. Using reclaimed textiles, many hand-dyed, to wrap broken pieces and reassemble them with stitch, enhancing the breaks. As with Kintsugi I aim to celebrate the imperfections, recreating the ceramic to become more interesting for its irregularities giving the object a new lease of life that becomes more refined thanks to its ‘scars’.
