Knitting Inspirations And Art

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Knitting Inspirations And Art

Knitting Inspirations And Art From Various Artists

Installation artist and avid knitter, Ben Cuevas

When you hear the name Ben Cuevas, the outlook on crocheting and knitting changes. Ben Cuevas, an installation artist who works in a variety of mediums uses fibre, specifically knitting and crochet, as a central element of his installation practice. Cuevas enjoys the rich cultural and social history that surrounds fibre arts, as well as blending the distinctions between art and craft. It is from Ben Cuevas that the crocheting and knitting grandparents should seek inspiration. The third eye can bring meaning to life and possibly a greater meaning to Christmas! Or at least this is way more fun, than those granny’s knitted woolly socks glowing in all the colours of the rainbow.

Installation artist and avid knitter - Ben Cuevas Skeleton

If the idea of the third eye hasn’t rocked your boat, Ben Cuevas has another knitted creation – an anatomically correct skeleton. Ben Cuevas, the currently featured artist at The Wassaic Project in New York also has a knitted rectum, amongst other internal body parts. Inspired by the British artist Damien Hirst and French social thinker Michel Foucault, Ben Cuevas will one day make the coolest knitting granddad in the world!

Knitting and crocheting artist Sarah Illenberger

Knitting and crocheting artist Sarah Illenberger - the heart and the brain

To compliment the skeleton above we have decided to have a look at some ‘flesh’. Although Ben Cuevas knits his own version of the heart and the brain, variation in artists is healthy and on this note we’re introducing a Central Saint Martin’s graduate, Sarah Illenberger. Sarah is also capable of knitting intestines.

Clemence Joly - The Wool Butchery

Clemence Joly Wool Butchery

Extra bacon with my eggs, please! – That’s a line we regularly hear in context with the English breakfast, especially during those savage hangover Sundays. The UK artist Clemence Joly got his bacon looking just right! Knit away, buddy!

PS: Clemence Joly was also commissioned to crochet a series of food items, which included the actual English breakfast complete with the slices of fried bacon, chips, a sunny side up and crocheted tomato ketchup! Joly also had a range of crocheted Sushi.

And while the appetite is still in tact we should take a look at some pickled gherkins.

Fibre Artist Nicole Gastonguay

Work of fibre artist Nicole Gastonguay

Living and working in New York City, Nicole Gastonguay has a few of those knitted items that we love! The pickled gherkins being one of them, but then there is a matchbox, a bible and a mousetrap too! :p

Lauren Porter’s mixed media sculptures

Santa, can I please have a Ferrari this Christmas? I didn’t get one for my birthday, so now it’s a good time!

With temperatures dropping below zero degrees, Santa may just take that into consideration and get you a knitted Ferrari!

Lauren Porter had created a Ferrari because it is instantly recognisable and the opposite of what people expect from something that is knitted. Porter further explains in her personal statement that bringing binary opposites together results in the work becoming appealing to a mixture of audiences.

Well, we certainly found it to be terribly fun!

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