Textile works exploring the many ways underrepresented stories can be told
Submit to Love Studios artist Sam Jevon created her textile work 'In Charge' for Common Threads. She was inspired by Yinka Shonibare’s self-portrait Effnik,
commissioned by Autograph in 1996.
Sam says “Art has played a big
part in my positivity, people always
say how good my drawings are and
that makes me feel very good about
myself...It was nice to do something different.
I can use both of my hands, and I
enjoyed trying to work out different
patterns. It was nice to work with
different materials and colours too,
which I don’t normally do.”
'Living One' was created collaboratively between Studio artists Trevor Small and Tirzah Mileham. They were inspired by James Barnor’s photograph Eva, taken in London in the 1960s and represented in Autograph’s collection of photography.
The Studio collaborated on 'Champion', inspired by a Victorian photograph of Peter Jackson taken by the London Stereoscopic Company in 1889. The original image, courtesy of Hulton Archive, a division of Getty images, is part of Autograph’s Exhibition in a Box The Missing Chapter: Black Chronicles.
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Banner image: Detail from Brian Searle, Unidentified Sitter, 2020. Courtesy Submit To Love Studios / Headway East London.
Page images, from top left: 1) Face the World, 2020. Submit To Love Studios collaboration. Courtesy Submit To Love Studios / Headway East London. 2) Sam Jevon, In Charge, 2020. Courtesy Submit To Love Studios / Headway East London. 3) Yinka Shonibare, Effnik, 1997. Commissioned by Autograph.
4) Living One, 2020. Submit to Love Studios collaboration with Trevor Small and Tirzah Mileham. Courtesy Submit To Love Studios / Headway East London. 5) James Barnor, Eva, 1960s. Courtesy Autograph, London. 6) Champion, 2020. Submit To Love Studios collaboration. Courtesy Submit To Love Studios / Headway East London. 7) Peter Jackson. London, 1889. By the London Stereoscopic Company. © Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Courtesy of Hulton Archive, and Autograph, London. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund. 8) Brian Searle, Unidentified Sitter, 2020. Courtesy Submit To Love Studios / Headway East London. 9) Trevor Small, The Noble Player, 2020. Courtesy Submit To Love Studios / Headway East London 2020. 10) The Little Prince, 2020. Submit To Love Studios collaboration. Courtesy Submit To Love Studios / Headway East London.