Annabel Wrigley, "Housetop Study 1", 2024

21.5 x 21.5, Fabric, thread, batting

This collection of new work demonstrates Annabel's confidence. In her second solo exhibition Wrigley re-asserts her interest in color while allowing room for rich surface exploration. Hand stitched marks layer on top of machine quilted areas, highlighting the artist's concentration. Additionally some areas without top stitching at all allow the color to be the singular focal point. Surfaces become as much a conversation as her undeniably signature use of intensely saturated fabrics. 

Deliberate and feverish, this wildly pigmented exhibition blends intuitive additive image construction with technically masterful virtuosity.

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Annabel Wrigley is an Australian born textile artist living in Richmond, Virginia.
With a background in quilting and textile design, she has begun to focus on creating heavily textured sewn pieces made to be hung on a wall.

Her work was recently featured in Alma’s RVA 2021 exhibition “Chromatic Formations” and has also been featured in various publications and at The Modern Quilt Guild’s international exhibition at Quilt Con in Pasadena, California.

Annabel's thoughts about the work:

The focus of this collection of work is color and the feeling that goes along with it.
Working with and surrounding myself with color has always created emotions and
feelings of happiness and protection from the swirling and uncertain world that we
live in today.