Rachel Anderson: Textile Artist - Portfolio

This is a showcase of my textile practice - for my community arts based work, have a look here

Cause and Effect, 2026, & This Is What I Think About It, 2026
Bobbin lace and machine embroidery on dissolvable fabric.
For 'MOTHER' by The Feminine Urge, Hull

The Mental Load, 2025
Machine embroidery on hand quilted piece.
For 'DEVOUR' by The Feminine Urge, Hull

Ganseys, 2025
Knitted swatches based on traditional gansey design.
For 'Walk The Plank' at Eclectic Gallery, Maister House Hull

Devoured, 2025 
Machine embroidery on handmade paper
Auctioned for Glasgow Childrens Hospital

Asakusa, 2024 & Gingko, 2024
Machine embroidery on calico.
For 'Flow' by Juice Studios, 2024

botanical illustration artwork of a japanese leaf from a gingko tree

Presence, Solo Show, 2024
  

The FRAMES Project, 2024

   

Botanical Connections, 2024
For The Feminine Urge, Our Big Picture, Grimsby

 

Small Details, 2023

Home Town Joys, 2023

Stained Glass Window (commission), 2022

Rachel Anderson Textiles X Meadowsweet & Myrtle, 202Meadowsweet and Myrtle X Contrary To Reason embroidery shirt, modelled on the runway at York Fashion Week, May 2022
York Fashion Week runway, Model: Lisa Doran, Photo: Olivia Brabbs

Stitchery, 2021

Embroidery piece of Hull Minster by Rachel Anderson

The Spirit Of Listeners, 2021

Embroidered piece of the Samaritans in Hull
Commissioned by Hull Samaritans to feature in their 60th anniversary book, ‘Listen’.

Orwell Youth Prize, 2020

'The Future we want" Embroidery piece of George Orwell

In early March 2020 I was invited to an Orwell Youth Prize Workshop day at the University of Hull, to document the days events in stitch.

The orwell youth prize. Rachel Anderson, textile artist, explaining the embroidery piece that documented the days workshop