Concrete Playground

A quaint garden scene in cross-stitch with something that is not quite right. It’s one third of Megan Yeo’s series, Midsomer Murders (Tea Cosie Terror), which leaves no question as to whether this craft is art.

Also in this exhibition is Linden Braye’s Rat and little lost glove … are they victims of some crime of passion involving sock puppets Sooty and Sweep? Funkadelic … a jilted prom queen’s revenge in acrylic on canvas? Jade Pegler’s The Decedents … possible love children of diva Grace Jones and that carnivorous plant from Little Shop of Horrors?

Curator and artist Kath Fries (whose own work Ariadne’s Thread creeps unassumingly across the gallery ceiling), envisaged “a conceptual thread” running between the artists in Le Fil, and you’ll discover one of the things that joins them is their turning away from the perceived boundaries of the needle-and-thread medium.


Image: Megan Yeo Midsomer Murders (Tea Cosie Terror 1). Cross stitch on printed fabric. Courtesy the artist.