Willow Stacey, a Kent-based textile artist, uses hand embroidery to confront and highlight everyday sexism. Initially trained in Fine Art, her focus shifted to immortalising comments men direct at women, often dismissed as jokes or poor chat-up lines, onto domestic textiles like dusters and doilies.
Willow works in a traditionally feminine embroidery style, hand sewing every letter and word onto inherently domestic textiles such as dusters, dish cloths, pillow cases and doilies. The hand embroidery creating a conversation between the brash sayings and the delicate, domestic textiles blurring the line between art and craft.
By titling each piece to reveal the context (e.g. 'Some Guy Who Messaged Me'), Willow illuminates the varied intent behind the phrases from deliberate malice to simple lack of awareness.
As long as men continue to say things without consequence, Willow will keep sewing.
