Corinne Hockley

Biography

Corinne is a mixed media textile artist with a background in costume and stage design. Based in the textile studio at SVA, she creates intricately stitched and embellished narrative pieces, exploring themes of freedom and constraint, ritual and romance.

A red thread often runs through her work, in which you are likely to encounter paper shoes, caged wings, chatelaines and roses. Also key are the motifs and tools associated with the age-old practice of making textiles...scissors, pins, thimbles, buttons, spindles...