"Circulus" Artwork

Alex Standring is an award-winning, bespoke Hand Embroiderer practitioners for fashion, costume and fine art. She specializes in the embroidery technique known as Goldwork which celebrates the use of fine metal wires and threads. Alex’s work is created by updating and reinventing traditional embroidery techniques to promote the fine art of hand embroidery and preserving the timeless craft. She enjoys looking to the past for creative insight and understanding traditions to inform new creations with a contemporary quality. A passion for creating pattern and surfaces through colour and texture is key to her practice. Her most recent body of work focuses on the traditional couching of golden Japanese thread in a spiralled pattern in order to reflect and manipulate the light which bounces of it, creating an illusion.