Thurle Wright reworks pages of old books into delicate, textile-inspired structures.
Inspired by the ancient connection between text and textile, Thurle takes familiar stories and ‘recrafts’ them— "spinning my own yarn, cutting my own cloth, and creating my own structural systems". Texts are liberated from the page, and the labour-intensive crafting process comes to the fore. Occasionally, objects gathered from the coastal landscape near her studio in Folkestone’s Creative Quarter find their way into her work.
This website is a portfolio built over twenty years. The work reveals many shifts and changes, yet it remains grounded in an aesthetic shaped by language and craft. The portfolio also includes examples of her teaching practice, work made during residencies in the UK, India and Australia, and a selection of commissioned work.
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Featured Works
Folkestone Cope
The Folkestone Cope is a personal work inspired by the Desert Island Discs idea of being left with only the Bible, Shakespeare and a single luxury. I “embroidered” the cope from these texts and a dictionary, adding natural objects gathered near my Folkestone home. The many meanings of cope echo my process of struggle, exchange, cutting away and reworking. Although I often reshape printed language, this piece is rooted in my own story—especially my father, a minister, teacher and poet now living with dementia, who taught me both the strength and fragility of words. The Cope becomes a protective gesture and a tribute to the shifting languages that shape us, as changeable and elemental as the coast I live beside.
"Wright transforms literature into textured sculptural forms that reveal the richness of language"
Homo Faber
Contact Me / Commissions
To follow my work please keep in touch via Instagram or you can find out information about current work or commissions at :
Jaggedart / Art Contact / Creative Folkestone / Homo Faber
For all other enquiries feel free to contact me directly at thurle@hotmail.com
Photos by Igor Emmerich, Alice Neni Brunel and Anthony Browne
Website by Agnes Baldwin
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