
About Siân Martin
Siân Martin has been a textile artist and teacher all her life. She now uses her experience to work with textile processes, using non-textile materials such as willow, cane, wire, plastics and paper thread.
You can keep up to date with Siân s work via her blog ‘Stitchloop‘
The short film below shows how she uses the raw materials from her garden in imaginative ways during ‘lock-down’ 2020.
She is interested in using these materials to tell a story. ‘Dispatched with a kiss’, a recent 4 metre length textile of fabric fragments gathered on steel wires relates a boy’s journey across Europe from Afghanistan to the UK.
‘Dispatched with a kiss’ the story of Ahmed’s journey from Afghanistan to UK ‘Dispatched with a kiss’ -first section describing contented village life in Afghanistan ‘Dispatched with a kiss’ – last part of journey towards the UK as a refugee
Siân likes to include local materials and enjoys modifying the qualities of raw materials to tell her story about different conservation issues which are a strong underlying theme for her recent work.
Topics such as protection of wetland areas, planting and preserving trees, and pollution of the coastline and birdlife with discarded plastics.