Born in Leeds and a Lincolnshire resident since 1989, Moira West gained a first class honours degree in Creative Arts. Her practice straddles the boundary between fine art and craft, exploring ideas through making.
Much of her work is site-specific. She is interested in the quality of place and her work reflects her response to sites. Working methods include handmade felting processes incorporating traditional and contemporary techniques. Wool fibres predominate, integrated with plant and cellulose fibres, to create unusual shapes and textures. Her work invites interaction and personal confrontation with life and its unexpected pathways.
She has a reputation for creating striking, fascinating, and unusual fibre art, many examples of which are in private collections. Combining textile technique with a diverse range of challenging materials, her work is inspired by the Lincolnshire landscape and a desire to push boundaries while creating an impact to promote a greater understanding of human frailty.
A member of Lincolnshire Artists' Society and registered with various organisations. Submitted work to the ‘SEE IT’ exhibition June 2007, to ‘Art of the Stitch’ 2008/9, and was a selected artist at OPEM 1, Lincoln 2011.
Influenced and inspired by seminal artists: Arman Jake & Dinos Chapman, David Hockney, Andy Goldsworthy, David Nash, Jaume Plensa, Richard Wentworth and Michael Brennand-Wood, but also many other artists for whom process and space are driving factors.
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