Limestone

Artist Statement

Rhiannon Robinson’s work explores the fusion of typography and textiles. Language is always the inspiration, and carefully selected writing is transferred to fabric through cyanotype, before being embellished with embroidery to amplify its meaning. The stitching is an intimate intervention with the typography, guided by the meaning of the text and the materials used. She has a particular interest in interpreting texts to do with landscape, ecology, and issues in science.

Limestone is based on an extract taken from A Land by Jacquetta Hawkes. First published in 1951, the book became a pioneering work of modern nature writing, and is a very personal, elegiac account of the shaping of Britain through geology, archaeology, palaeontology and social history.