Location
You can find us at 86 Margaret Street, London W1W 8TE
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Accessibility
Our in person classes are taught in our school which is located upstairs in our studio. Unfortunately the building does not have lift access, so use of the stairs would be necessary.
Tutor Profile
Alex Standring is an award-winning, Freelance Hand Embroiderer working within the luxury fashion and costume industries. She specializes in the embroidery technique known as Goldwork which celebrates the use of fine metal wires and threads. As a commitment to her craft Alex joined the Worshipful Company of Gold & Silver Wyre Drawers as a Trade Freeman in 2020; the company aims to support those working with metal wires and encourages the sharing of knowledge and skills.
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 patterns 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 off 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. Her awards include first place in the Student Textile Art category at the Hand & Lock ‘Prize for Embroidery’ and the Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers’ award for Goldwork Embroidery. Since graduating she has worked for couture brands including Ralph & Russo, Safiyaa, Burberry and Tamara Ralph. Furthermore, she has also worked with Embroidery Designer Cathryn Avison on costumes for film & TV including productions such as, Disney’s Mulan, HBO’s The Regime and House of the Dragon and Universal Pictures’ Wicked. To date her work has been exhibited in London at the Guildhall Art Gallery, The Goldsmith’s Centre and The Fashion & Textile Museum.
Website: www.alexstandring.com
Instagram: @a_s_embroidery
Testimonials
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