Golden Haze

Artist Statement

Alex Standring is an award-winning, Freelance Hand Embroiderer working within the luxury fashion and costume industries. She specialises in the embroidery technique known as Goldwork which celebrates the use of fine metal wires and threads. Alex’s work is created by updating and reinventing traditional embroidery techniques to promote the fine art of hand embroidery and preserving the timeless craft. She enjoys looking to the past for creative insight and understanding traditions to inform new creations with a contemporary quality. Her most recent piece Golden Haze focuses on the couching of golden Japanese thread in a spiralled pattern to encourage movement, reflection and manipulate the light which bounces of it, creating an almost optical illusion.