A Grimsby Girl’s World Tour series of imagined Journeys has featured the Grimsby Girl’s trips to Bogota, Colombia, Outer Space, Tokyo, Japan, Copenhagen, Denmark, Madrid, Spain, Brooklyn, NYC, USA, & Vancouver, Canada.
The Grimsby Girl is my Mum, Muriel May Stone. She never had the opportunity to travel outside the Uk in her lifetime so in this series I take her to places I or my work have visited and enjoyed. I know that she would have loved to see them too!
A Grimsby Girl’s World Tour • Copenhagen 2022
Capturing the essence of Sue Stone’s creative practice: a poignant narrative and a limited colour palette, combine with hand stitch, machine stitch, surface texture, appliqué and paint to create the allusion of a journey to another place and time.
Muriel, the artist’s mother, never travelled outside the UK in her lifetime; here she travels to Copenhagen where her grandson, Sam currently lives. The pair never met as Muriel died 3 weeks before Sam was born.
Size 30 x 30 cms
Materials: Linen fabric, applied sari silk, acrylic paint
Techniques: mixed media
In Another Life 2021 aka A Grimsby Girl’s World Tour • Madrid
Born in 1913 she was not able to travel during her lifetime and had very few opportunities in life to pursue her artistic and musical interests. She left school aged 13 and was apprenticed to a tailor. It was a hard life with no recognition of her talents as a seamstress. She loved singing and was a talented contralto. Here in another life, alongside her best friend she travels to Madrid to study music and theatre.
Size: 48.5 x 59 cms
Materials:Linen & cotton recycled clothing fabrics, Cotton & linen threads
Techniques: Hand & Machine Embroidery
A Grimsby Girl’s World Tour • Vancouver
Inspired by a visit to the Museum of Anthropology UBC, Canada in 2018.
Size: 23 x 23 cms
Materials: Coton & linen fabrics and threads
Techniques: Hand stitch & Appliqué
Grimsby Girl’s World Tour : Brooklyn, NYC,USA
Inspired by a trip to NYC in 2019
Size: 31 x 45 cms
Materials: Recycled French linen tea towel, cotton thread
Techniques: Hand & Machine stitch,
The Adventures of a Grimsby Girl no 1 2016 • The Journey Begins
When a Grimsby girl and her companions, a fish and a cat venture into space an adventure ensues. Inspiration comes from the Buck Rodgers comics of the 1930s with a hint of steam punk and references to Grimsby trawler, Fittonia, GY 390 and the local football team, the Mariners.
Size : 51 x 61 x 2 cms
Materials: linen, recycled fabrics, cotton & metal threads, insulating foil
Techniques: digital print, hand & machine stitch, appliqué
The Adventures of a Grimsby Girl no 2 2016 • The One where Harry Goes Missing
When a Grimsby girl and her companions, a fish and a cat venture into space an adventure ensues. Inspiration comes from the Buck Rodgers comics of the 1930s. Continuing their journey through time and space 3 companions become 2 when Harry the fish disappears. After an encounter with a little green man Harry has lost his spacesuit and looks as though he may become the alien’s dinner but will he survive? To be continued………
51 x 61 x 2 cms
Materials: linen, recycled fabrics, cotton & metal threads, insulating foil
Techniques: digital print, hand & machine stitch, appliqué
Photo by : Yeshen Venema
A Grimsby Girl’s Work Tour: Tokyo 2013
A girl from Grimsby, a tuna from Tsukiji, a holiday in Harajuku combine. Travel through ethereal layers of time and place to Takeshita Street. The artist’s mother was born on 6th December 1914 in a fishing port in the UK. 99 years later this Grimsby girl meets modern day Tokyo.
Size: 58 x 112cms
Materials:Cotton/linen fabric, cotton threads
Materials:Cotton/linen fabric, cotton threads
A Grimsby Girl’s World Tour • Colombia 2013
Size 20 x 20 cms
Techniques: Hand and machine stitch, appliqué painting
Techniques: Hand and machine stitch, appliqué painting
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