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Mark Corfield-Moore’s ‘Paintings Using Textile Techniques’ contains a series of fascinating dualities. The clear planning behind each piece is often interrupted by impulsive pleasures as well as marriage processes and imagery and text, reflecting the fusion of cultures. Some will recognize the outline of the traditional technique of ikat weaving in Feathery, which the British-Thai artist gives a contemporary edge. Kate McGarry, a new body of work to be exhibited at E2, explores, as Mark explains, ‘what it is to be home – to belong – and what it is to be fleeting and step into the unknown’.
Our conversation is taking place in his studio outside the East Sussex town of Hastings, where he has lived for the past five years. Born but raised in Bangkok EnglandHe developed an interest in textiles during his final year of an MA at the Royal Academy Schools, when he ‘wanted to discover.
How to embed a painted image into a canvas’. He began experimenting with the loom and his mother mentioned that his late grandmother was a weaver in their village in northern Thailand. She suggested that he visit, stay with his cousins and learn the craft from the artisans who still weave there. ‘That was the moment everything fell into place,’ says Mark, adding that he has gone back several times.
