Meet the artists

You’re warmly invited to come and meet some of the seam artists who will be exhibiting as part of Warped and Wasted, and to discuss their work with them, at ACEarts in Somerton on Saturday 30 August, 11am-1pm. 

The artists and their individual works

Warped and Wasted is a large scale, experimental art installation, made exclusively with 100% waste, existing second hand and biodegradable textiles. As a collaboration between 14 seam collective artists, it’s an ambitious project which highlights the issues surrounding textile waste and care for the environment.

In the exhibition works are not labelled; artists are not identified for the individual works and the materials are not listed. It’s a collaboration. It makes visible our collaborative journey towards sustainability so far – the care, connections, compromises and complexities.

Here you’ll find details about the 14 artists involved – their individual works, the materials used, their personal journeys towards sustainability and their responses to the Warped and Wasted project so far. Why not have a look and follow them on Instagram?

NB We will continue to add more information about each artist’s work to this page in the run up to the opening of Warped and Wasted on Saturday 23 August 2025 and beyond. Please come back another time.

Alice Marie Archer @alicemariearcherstudio
Lou Baker @loubakerartist
Oliver Bliss @olybliss 
Youngye Glory Cho @glory.y.cho 
Jane Colquhoun @jane_colquhoun
Julie Heaton @julieheatonartist
Desiree Jeans @isla_design
Nina Gronw Lewis @ninagronwlewis
Helen MacRitchie @helenmacritchie 
Joy Merron @joymerron 
Lydia Needle @lydianeedle 
Angie Parker @angieparkertextiles 
Nicola Turner @nicolaturner.art 
Penny Wheeler @penelopise.

Team seam

A big part of our Warped and Wasted project is about collaboration, artist development and mutual support. Over the past weeks, team seam has been working closely together, researching and developing ways to work more sustainably, distilling our ideas into a cohesive vision both in theory and practice. We’ve been very grateful to have worked with two brilliant external mentors, Judith van den Boom, who leads the MA in Regenerative Design at Central St. Martins in London, and Helen Carnac, an artist and curator who has experience in facilitating collaboration in fine art projects. They have facilitated some of our recent Collaboration meetings, both in-person and online, challenging our thinking and supporting our learning about the complexities of textile waste and sustainability… and also guiding us through our processes of collaboration. Many thanks, Judith and Helen!

Here at seam collective, we celebrate the fact that each member has their own unique style and distinctive methods of making. However, it does mean that the prospect of collaboration is quite an interesting challenge! We all work in different ways – some need to start with thinking through reading and developing ideas, others need to start with thinking through making and materials; some of us make largescale installations, others prefer the intimacy of small works; some make beautiful and functional objects, others make troubling sculptures. How do we find a way to work together to create something thought provoking and aesthetically pleasing, which also honours our individuality and our different practices?

We are embroiderers, sculptors, knitters, weavers, dyers, fine artists, felt makers, book makers, installation makers, socially engaged artists… and more. We’re connected by our love of textiles, by being part of team seam, but also by our care for the environment. Through all our recent in-person and online collaboration meetings, we’ve come to the conclusion that learning together about sustainability and regeneration is the most important part of the Warped and Wasted collaboration –  all our individual journeys combined become seam’s journey.

The issues with textile waste are overwhelming and working on an ambitious project like this takes many of us way outside our comfort zones. However, we have found that working together really helps. It’s been amazing to be able to discuss our differences and dilemmas and to learn from and support one another through this process. Hurray for team seam!

Read more about what we’ve been learning together in our recent blog posts, Collaboration Meeting 1, Collaboration Meeting 2, Collaboration Meeting 3, and Collaboration Meeting 4 on the seam website. And there will be more!

🧵 Meet the Artists 
📆 30 August 2025
📍 ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, TA11 7NB 

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