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      • Polly Meynell

        Contemporary Textiles

        'A passion of the hand'

        Small panel for St Bartholomew

      • Public arenas

        Large scale banners, installations and wall hangings

        'We will tell them'
        'Window to the sky'
        'Dis-ease' triptych
        'Window to the sky'
        'Reconciliation and healing' triptych
        'Blue window'
        'Seeing the light'
        'Blue window'
        'Contortion'
        'Passionate'
        'Blue window'
        'Appeasement'
        'Resolution'
        'Contortion'
      • Sacred spaces

        Installations, panels, robes and cloths

        All season cloth for St Andrew's Corbridge
        Passiontide panel
        Bishop of Gloucester Rachel Treweek
        Ordinary time panel
        A journey of the hand
        Leeds Minster
        'Waiting for the Light'
        Stoles for Advent and Lent
        Bishop Rachel Treweek
        Magna Carta Cope
        Five Festal Copes
        Guildford Copes
        'Blood shed for the light'
        Guildford Cope
        Trinity Vestment
        Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines
        Dean of Guildford Diana Gwilliams
        Ordination stoles
        St Mary's Funtington
        A reflection of Saddleworth Moor
        Detail of St Andrew's Corbridge
        URC Altrincham
        West Worthing Baptist Church
        Detail of High Altar frontal for St Mary Funtington
        All Saints Beckley panel
        Passiontide stoles
        Bradford Cathedral celebration panel
        Ceremonial stole
      • Private collections

        Commissioned artworks for individuals

        'Tal-y-Coed' detail
        'Orbs'
        'Swell'
        'Green line journey'
        Fair Deal. Everything above board and smelling of roses
        'Straight round'
        'Furrows'
        'Square grid' detail
        'Tal-y-Coed'
        'Parallels'
        Cyrstaline
        'Loophole'
        'Furrows' detail
        Square Deal, wrapped in red tape
        Raw Deal. Irish Seas
        'Childhood'
        Parallel extensions
        'Towards Rhosilli Bay'
        'Loophole'
        'Childhood reflection'
        'Square Grid'
        Detail of 'Necleus'
      • About the artist

        Bespoke contemporary textiles, surface embroidery, layering, colour and always silk...

        Textiles to arrest and ponder

        Polly Meynell lives in West Sussex and makes bespoke textile art works for individuals, public buildings, and sacred spaces.

         

        She has a created large scale banners, wall hangings and panels in addition to bespoke robes and costume for special events, theatre and public buildings. She has designed for red carpet actors, theatrical productions, Bishops and Cathedrals, the Drapers’ Company, the Lutheran Church in New York USA, to name a few.

        Radio

        'How to dress a female Bishop'. BBC Radio 4

        An interview on Woman's Hour about the making of robes for Bishop Rachel Treweek. Click on image to hear interview.

        TV

        Commemorative textiles for Bradford Cathedral. BBC Songs of Praise

        Interviewed by Pam Rhodes in St Aidan's chapel talking about the very start of Bradford Cathedral's newly commissioned textiles.

        Community Art

        Stitching the Cathedral. Bradford's community art piece.

        This short video describes the value of a community art project in bringing people together over a common goal.

        Publications

        'The making of the robes'

        A book on the creation of the inaugural robes for the first female Bishop of Gloucester

        'Bradford Cathedral. Contemporary Textiles'

        A book detailing the creation of new textiles for the 50th anniversary of Bradford Cathedral

      • Events

        Pop up exhibition

        An exhibition featuring art and furniture from Sussex artists with a passion for their work

      • Contact

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