Lot 20 - Bellamy Jean - Finding the Light

Textile
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Mercedes Lucy

About
Bellamy Jean is a contemporary textile artist and designer specialising in original and bespoke embroidery. She started sewing in the back of her mother’s lingerie shop and has spent years developing her skills and style. Focused mainly on textiles, Bellamy creates meaningful pieces using fabric and thread.
Through her work, she studies the art of alchemy and the symbolism surrounding world religions past and present, as well as colour compositions through the work of Hilma af Klint, Joseph Albers, and Alexander Calder. Each of her pieces is hand-drawn and embroidered freehand using an Industrial freehand embroidery machine.

Education
Art Foundation, City and Guilds school of fine art 2006
Freehand machine embroidery course, London Embroidery Studio 2017
Digital embroidery course, London Embroidery Studio, 2018

Group Exhibitions
Babes in Arms, The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK, September 2022
Babes in Arms, Big Yin Gallery, St Leonards on Sea, UK, November 2021

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
The two pieces that I have created are symbolic portrayals of femininity, with a star being the focal point of both embroideries. I used a star as an independent symbol within the pieces to show a life-giving source, the most common perception of being female. My aim is to further the conversation on the way women are perceived and portrayed in today's society.