FANCY! Paris Essex in Margate until 26th March

We had a great opening weekend at the gallery! Thanks to everyone who came along to see the show and celebrate with us- travelling from Kent, London and as far as Scotland! Hotel Michele 231 Northdown Road Margate, England, CT9 2PJ. 11-5pm fri/sat/sun until 26 March. Part of the Power of Women Festival- details here:

https://www.powthanet.com/events/fancy-paris-essex-in-margate

Curated and organised by Kavel Rafferty

Photo by Beth Saunders

Photo by Beth Saunders

Coming soon! Paris Essex in Margate

Fancy a trip to the seaside? We will be showing work in our solo show FANCY at Hotel Michele gallery in Margate. POP IN we will be at opening on 3rd March 5-8pm !!! Go to POW website to book artist talk and see more workshops. https://www.powthanet.com/events/fancy-paris-essex-in-margate

3 – 26 March

Friday – Sunday, 11am - 5pm or by appointment.

Opening Night: Friday 3 March 5pm-8pm

Hotel Michele 231 Northdown Road, Margate, England, CT9 2PJ

Material Girl Paris Essex statement

Our recent work is a series of unashamedly joyful and exuberant giant woolly vases. Scaled-up crochet techniques from 1970s craft books have been combined with recognisable 1980s domestic knitting-machine patterns. Rather than rejecting and avoiding outdated and sexist ideas of women’s crafts and home-making from our childhood, we have found ourselves paying respects to all forms of domesticity and playfully nostalgic for feminine stereotypes that we used to avoid.

Working in textiles and specifically with hand crochet and domestic knitting machines, we have been immersed in the world of hobbies and home-craft for years, whether we liked it or not. Like a scroll through lockdown social media tutorials, the imagery in our work embraces the enduring joys of flower-arranging, pottery, cat-lovers and make-up tutorials.

Material girl at The Bomb Factory Long Acre London WC2

Blue Lips Bouquet -Crochet and Knit

Material Girl Show in Covent Garden London

Opening on 7th December- 6pm-8pm. It will be great to be showing Paris Essex knit and crochet pieces within a tactile, decorative and colourful mixed media show of textiles, ceramics and sculpture. Right near Covent Garden tube station at 99-103 Long Acre WC2E 9NR. Open over December

Organised by the Bomb Factory https://www.bombfactory.org.uk

Check https://www.artrabbit.com/events/material-girl for details

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Image: Fire Eye, Paris Essex, Photographer Vytas NomadasAn exhibition of the work of Paris Essex is on at Emma Scully Gallery in Los Angeles until 22 August. Founded by Carolyn Clewer (from Essex) and Tiphaine de Lussy (from Paris), Paris Essex is t…

Image: Fire Eye, Paris Essex, Photographer Vytas Nomadas

An exhibition of the work of Paris Essex is on at Emma Scully Gallery in Los Angeles until 22 August. Founded by Carolyn Clewer (from Essex) and Tiphaine de Lussy (from Paris), Paris Essex is the result of years of collaboration between the two knitwear and textiles specialists.

Crazy Blankets can hang on walls, be thrown on sofas, or, in some cases, worn. Their process finds joy and humour in the accidental and unplanned. Against the landscape of industrially produced fashion knitwear, made from globalized design and polis…

Crazy Blankets can hang on walls, be thrown on sofas, or, in some cases, worn. Their process finds joy and humour in the accidental and unplanned. Against the landscape of industrially produced fashion knitwear, made from globalized design and polished machine work, Paris Essex celebrates the creative possibilities inherent in the handmade. Their references and inspirations are irreverent and pop: from Big Bird to Siouxsie and the Banshees. Clewer and de Lussy materialize our collective cultural dreamscape in a medium uniquely suited to it. Their work retains the warmth, playfulness and absurdity of a cartoon. In our broken moment, the escapism of Sunrise or Dazed Eyes recalls tuning in and dropping out; a psychedelic answer when reason has failed.

Paris Essex 'Crazy Blankets' By Appointment Only to Promote Social Distancing, at Emma Scully Gallery.

Paris Essex x Kitsch Kitchen Cushions

Our Paris Essex X Kitsch Kitchen Collaboration embroidered cushions are now available !!! 

Wholesale from Kitsch Kitchen directly or retail online from from a shop near you. Try W.A.Green

Mr Tooth Pillow by by Paris Essex for Kitsch Kitchen

Mr Tooth Pillow by by Paris Essex for Kitsch Kitchen

Mask Pillow by Paris Essex for Kitsch Kitchen

Mask Pillow by Paris Essex for Kitsch Kitchen

Lips Pillow by Paris Essex for Kitsch Kitchen

Lips Pillow by Paris Essex for Kitsch Kitchen