Annabel Rainbow

Update on Iciline

Diary of Progress

14/09/2024 0

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

31/08/2024 0

“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 […]

Switched to working on George Saunders

Diary of Progress

28/07/2024 0

Windrush. Fading away with memories that will be lost. It’s a history we should record. This is a blog of how my pieces are building. As with the other quilts in the series George Saunders, […]

Benjamin Zephaniah – Windrush 6

Benjamin Zephaniah

21/07/2024 0

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 […]

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.