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Update on Iciline

Diary of Progress

Rehema Motherland. I’m having camera issues (new phone) at the moment, and none of the following are particular correct colours but the truth is something between the two!           I swapped […]

The start of Iciline’s quilt

Diary of Progress

“Rehema Motherland” is the title for the next quilt of Iciline Brown for Leamington Art Gallery and Museum. Iciline was born in 1936 in Jamaica and came to the UK in 1957. So what does […]

Benjamin Zephaniah – Windrush 6

Benjamin Zephaniah

The latest addition to my Windrush quilt series, is a piece called “The background’s too strong, it needs to be whiter,” and it features the dynamic figure of Benjamin Zephaniah, captured in a moment of […]

In brief

Much of my work is now in private collections in the UK, Australia, and the US. Four of the ‘Life’ series of quilts remain available for exhibition if required. Currently producing new work for exhibition in 2025.

I enjoy teasing out some knotty concerns using stitch and my work is largely figurative in some form and often features people’s stories using text.  I hope to draw on the long feminine history of quilts to reveal ideas relating to gender, work, inequality, female oppression, and prejudice in all forms to all people.

 

And the crows came to the feast and destroyed the beauty. Life Quilt

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23rd Feb 2024 I had one of those nights when you wake at some unearthly hour and can’t get back to sleep again because your mind is racing. The weight of the world was not […]

Iciline Brown

Iciline Brown – Indomitable spirit

by Annabel in Diary of Progress 2

Today, I had the opportunity to meet, photograph, and speak with Iciline Brown and her daughter Monica. Iciline is set to be the next subject in the Windrush quilt series. She came to the country [...]