Eleanor Hannan

I am a visual artist working in machine embroidery. The Small Excursions are based on my painterly desire to mess around with colour and form as organic abstractions against a blank surface. Because the embroidered white surface must be worked up stitch by stitch it is possible to dwell on the feel of surface disruption (such as direction changes, displacement, the action of thread stumbling repeatedly over thread) caused by the spreading of the colour and the growth into being of the forms. These are translations to thread the act of embroidery becoming my interpreter of the language of paint. They are meant to be viewed in groups.

Excursion # 1

Excursion # 1
machine embroidery on cotton

Excursion # 6

Excursion # 6
machine embroidery

Sunday, May 31, 2009


May 30th, I am posting one detail for you so you can see thread textures. This is from Excursion # 9/2. There are 22 Excursions in total.
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New thoughts on the series Small Excursions


May 30th, 2009
As I complete the Small Excursions and review them to begin preparing for the show I realize that one of my goals for these embroideries is that the movements of thread texture, form and colour entertain you, the viewer as they entertain me. The forms move and fade and intensify although static they compel the imagination to travel or “excursion” with them as they interface with each other. Negative spaces are significant contributors in the journey.

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