About my work
I use free appliqué and free hand machine embroidery to transfer my ideas as well as images of nature or close-up scenes from everyday life onto fabric.
In my free motion stitch drawings, sketched with black thread on canvas, and my patchwork collages, I explore new dimensions of identity, language, time and place.
My work evolves in a long creative process. From an initial idea, my stitch images and stories develop in a meditative journey of cutting, reassembling and sewing.
Mentions
2025
•"Frances Palgrave vertelt verhalen met haar textielcollages", article from Petra Sjouwerman in Textielplus, Dutch textile art magazine, June 2025.
2023
• "Stitched Journeys with Birds: Inspiration to Let Your Creativity Take Flight”, Schiffer 2023, ed. Martha Sielman.
• "Textile Portraits: People and Places in Textile Art", Batsford 2023, ed. Anne Kelly.
• "Künstlerporträt - Frances Palgrave: Textilcollagen aus Hamburg", Patchwork Professional, Magazin für Quilt- und Textilkunst, Ausgabe 01/2023, S. 46-50.
2022
• "Neu in der Drostei: 76 Kunstwerke aus dem Norden", Hamburger Abendblatt (5.5.2022), Kultur, Region Pinneberg.
2020
• US-Magazin "Fiber Art Now", Emerging Artists 2020, Fall Edition.
