Self Stacey Page Artist Research

Stacey Page is a mixed media artist from Georgia, America, working with such mediums as paint, clay and wood. She has instead settled on needles and thread, embroidering  headdresses and strange masks on old photographs salvaged from charity shops. Page chooses postcard sized photographs of people . She photocopies each photograph and sketches out the possibilities of her designs of her characters, and carefully deciding colour and stitch to create her outcome. Page creates a persona of that individual  based on what she believes they are like on the inside as opposed to what's on the outside regarding fashion, status, ego, and avatar. Many of her pieces are influenced by her mood and she recreates some of this into her work.

Todd

Embroidery on Photograph

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Melissa

Embroidery on Photograph

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I like the contrast of the vibrant and bold colours of the embroidery threads  against the sepia and black and white tones of the photographs  as it helps to make the embroidery itself stand out more which I think adds to the surrealism within her pieces which I which I would like to incorporate into my own piece.  One of my favourite things about her pieces is her use of line that has been considered carefully to make elements seem more realistic like creating the feeling of fur in some of her embroidery pieces she does it in a way to make the beast come alive and make the viewer want to touch it  as it almost looks real. The lines in this piece follow a certain direction to lead the viewer's eyes around the body of the beast to allow the viewer to appreciate the whole piece rather than just be stuck on one focal point. Her pieces influence me to try Page’s technique of embroidering an avatar of myself that accentuate parts of my personality that stands out and incorporate that by embroidering mythical creatures or things completely of my own imagination  within my piece that represent these characteristics completely of my own imagination