Jess Hall is a Naarm/Melbourne based, multi-disciplinary artist working with painting, drawing, embroidery and soft sculpture. Trained as a painter, printmaker and textile designer, the work responds to the intersection of these disciplines, often using a descriptive drawing approach and embroidery techniques to express tactility and a love of pattern.
Works on Paper
Works on paper are made using ink, watercolour and sometimes embroidery on watercolour paper. The work explores liminal spaces between art and craft and between art and science; looking to these influences to explore tactility and materiality.
Embroideries
Painting/embroidery works are made by hand painting dye onto linen and using embroidery as a drawing technique, featuring backstitch, French knots, split stitch, brick stitch, bullion stitch, turkey rug stitch, wheat stitch and rope stitch.