Fleur Webb

For as long as mixed media hand embroidery artist Fleur Webb can remember, her practice has had underlying elements of beauty, femininity and vulgarity.

Fleur established these beliefs on the grounds of rebelling against traditional beauty standards asking the question: who truly defines what is beautiful?

The Midnight Zone, her most recent collection reflects these ideals through exploring the unknown, fear and beauty of the deep-sea.

Thalassophobia is the centre piece of The Midnight Zone. This piece of wearable art collates gold work and raised work embroidery, with elements of tambour used throughout. With the decadence of goldwork and tambour techniques and the structure raised work embroidery provides, this adornment investigates the beauty, fear and unknown of the deep-sea in a way science cannot, through artistic, contemporary hand embroidery.

Thalassophobia is the fear of deep water.