Print, Stitch, and Bind.
Ali has a background in fabric and stitch, working alongside interior designers to bring drapery ideas to life. After completing a Degree in Textile Design, Ali progressed from textiles to bookbinding, adding paper and leather to fabric and thread.
Her practice involves mastering natural materials, combining them with her own artwork and print, amalgamating experimental and traditional techniques to produce tactile, collectable books and textiles.
Inspiration is found in the colour, design, and forms of nature, with weathered and timeworn buildings that so often coexist; ideas are captured through sketches and photography which are developed into pattern and print.
AWARDS
2018 Worshipful Company of Dyers award for Academic Excellence.
2016 Bradford Textile Society 1st Prize Textile Design in Repeat.
2015 Bradford Textile Society 3rd Prize Knitted Fabric.
2015 James Charles Hogarth Prize Best Overall Performance Award.
2015 Worshipful Company of Dyers award for Most Promising use of Colour.
2016 Worshipful Company of Dyers award for Most Promising use of Colour.
2011 Scottish Quilt Champion & 1st Prize Art Quilt Category.
EXHIBITIONS
2020: Upright Gallery, Reconnections, Group Artist Book Exhibition.
2019: Society of Bookbinders, International Bookbinding Competition Exhibition.
2018: New Designers Exhibition. BDC London.
2017: Back to the Future. Edge Textile Artists Scotland.
2014: Group 12. Group Exhibition, Tweedale Museum & Gallery, Peebles.
2013: Border Textile, Group Exhibition.
2013: Solo Painting Exhibition, Woodside Garden Centre, Scottish Borders.
2013: Stitch 12, Textile group. Group Exhibition, Moot Hall Hexham.
2012: Stitch 12, Textile group. Group Exhibition, Moot Hall Hexham.
2011: Vennel Gallery, Kelso.
2011: Scottish Quilt Champion, art quilt and themed quilt. Scottish Quilt Show.
2011: Smailholm Art Group, group exhibition.
2011: Charity Art Exhibition, Vennel Gallery. Kelso.