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ArtEvol 2025 / Iseult Pigot
It All Comes Undone , 2025 Mended and embroidered textile Each 77 × 54 cm, 92 × 54 cm, 80 × 57 cm
Iseult Pigot is a designer and visual artist based in London, producing graphic work, publications and typography through stitching, embroidery and mending. Pigot’s material-based approach employs traditional textile crafts as a form of protest, engaging feminist issues through the lens of craftivism. While textiles remain central, the practice is interdisciplinary, translating tactility and hand- crafted processes into digital formats and drawing on expertise in graphic design and communication to create intricate works.
Artwork Introduction
It All Comes Undone presents three tea towels from the bridal trousseaux of Iseult Pigot’s grandmother and great-grandmother, stitched with their initials and intended for house chores. Inspired by the activist history of needlework, the embroidery of the trousseau is re-situated within the current context of craftivism. Rather than being discarded, the worn-through tea towels are mended and embroidered to become banners, protesting the contemporary collapse of rights and the environment. This perpetuates a long tradition of resistance through needlework and celebrates the women who practise it and speak through it.
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