Bio
Imogen Hogan is a textile artist based in London.
Inspired by fabric buying trips to Thailand and Sri Lanka she decided she would like to explore her love of textiles and work creatively with them. Using them she considers a fresh and immediate way of storytelling. She went on to study at Morley College, Central St Martins, the V&A and more recently the Royal School of Needlework.
Imogen’s most recent work focuses on portraits, mainly of women. The images have a strong narrative often a commentary on everyday life and commonplace observation. These are images of powerful women, uplifting and playful. Worked on bright coarsely woven linens combined with vintage barkcloth, stitched unevenly with black Egyptian cotton thread giving the impression of thick inked lines. These pieces are then stretched onto a large canvases which also help to contribute to their painterly quality.
“I have always been impressed by women’s ability to endure, to work, to raise families, to endlessly give but remain themselves, my images are of women, strong, happy, enigmatic and proud, layered with a vulnerability which can at times be glimpsed in their gaze.”