Tag: tactile art

Sepideh Shahgholi creates deeply personal paintings and wearable sculptures shaped by memory, identity, migration, and emotional connection to place. Moving fluidly between abstract landscapes, layered mark-making, organic forms, and intricate sculptural headpieces made from wire and natural materials, her work explores how emotions and memories live within the body long after places are left behind. Rather than beginning with fixed images, her paintings emerge intuitively through feelings, smells, colours, and fragments of lived experience that slowly surface onto the canvas through layered marks and washes. Alongside her paintings, Sepideh’s wearable sculptures…

Constance McBride creates sculptural figures in clay that move beyond representation to explore what it feels like to exist within a body. Hand-building each piece from stoneware paper clay, she allows every surface to hold marks of pressure, time, and change. Her figures often appear folded, compressed, or suspended in moments of tension, reflecting both strength and vulnerability. Influenced by nature, memory, and lived experience, her work treats the body as a “dwelling place,” capable of holding both safety and confinement. Through cracks, textures, and layered materials, she embraces imperfection as…

Jennifer Morgan transforms soft materials into strikingly lifelike portraits, using wool, beads, and hand-blended fibers to build depth and emotion without paint. Her process is slow and intentional, allowing texture to carry the story through layered surfaces that feel both delicate and powerful. Each piece captures subtle expressions and quiet emotional weight, inviting viewers to look closer and connect more deeply. By blurring the line between textile and fine art, her work challenges how portraiture is traditionally understood, proving that even the softest mediums can hold presence, intensity, and lasting impact.