Alex Standring

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.

Alex graduated from the Royal School of Needlework in 2018 with a First-Class BA(Hons) in Hand Embroidery for Fashion, Interiors, Textile Art and subsequently graduated from the University of Leeds with an MSc in Textiles in 2020.

Square Mile Summer Exhibition 2025, Crane Court Gallery, London, 31st July - 28th August 2025

Bound: Embroidered Realities, Batsford Gallery, London 13th - 18th May 2025

The Broderer's Exhibition: The Art of Embroidery, Bankside Gallery, 25th Feb - 2nd March 2025

Bound: An Embroiderer's Story, The Department Store Brixton, London, 16th-21st January 2025

Treasures of Gold & Silver Wire, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, September-December 2023

Drawn and Formed, The Goldsmith's Centre, London, June-September 2022

150 Years of The Royal School of Needlework: Crown to Catwalk, Fashion & Textile Museum, London, April-September 2022