I work in three separate but related areas: fibre art/painting, artists’ books, and printmaking (mainly etching). These three areas are connected to each other in a number of ways, firstly through recycling of materials. The fibre art comprises recycled fabric using printing. The artists’ books utilise old carte de visite albums and photographs with drawing, etching, and sometimes fabric.
My work in the medium of artists’ books is not illustration or visualization of a narrative but more an emotional response to the writing or type of book. My books include responses to Georges Perec’s novel ‘Les Choses’ as well as works based on the Biblical books of Jonah, Ruth, Esther and Ecclesiastes; more recent books comprise old carte de visite albums and collections of etchings representing motion and change using photographs with drawing, etching, and sometimes fabric.
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My works tend towards abstraction but are influenced by natural processes including growth, flowering, withering and fading. I emphasize the contrasts between dark and light, flowing and stagnant, active and passive, transparent and opaque. Often the work is divided into a geometrical pattern and represents the process of change from one state or situation to another, which is often achieved through a series of images.
Yael David-Cohen - Curriculum Vitae
Born in Jerusalem, Israel
Lives and works in London, England
Education
1962-1966 Tel Aviv Art School, Israel
1963-1966 University of Tel Aviv, Israel (BA in Philosophy and Hebrew Literature)
1968-1969 St Martin’s School of Art, London (Postgraduate Degree in Printmaking)
Recent Solo Exhibitions:
2016, 2014, 2011, 2008 bookartbookshop, London
2014 Nancy Victor Gallery, London
2011 Museum der VG Eich, Gimbsheim
2011 The Coningsby Gallery, London 2008 The Coningsby Gallery, London 2007 Galerie Le Cocon, Hamburg
Recent Group Exhibitions:
2017 20th Biennial Quilt National Athens, Ohio USA
2017 Celebrate! Abecedarian Gallery Denver, Colorado USA
2017 Sketch at Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, UK
2017, 2014 Evolutions Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum Golden Colorado USA
2017, 2013 Bound and Unbound II Artists Books University of South Dakota USA
2016, 2014 Inspired by .... V & A Museum, Morley Gallery London
2014-15 European Art Quilt VIII touring exhibition
2013 In Search of Perfection, Museum Tsaritsyno Moscow
2013 Biennale de L’Estampe de Saint Maur France
2013 Light Hope Opportunity Quilt for Change UN Headquarters Geneva
2013 Pushing the Surface
2013 Johnson- Humrickhouse Museum Ohio USA
2012 Voices - Quilt Art Group Travelling Exhibition
2012 Beijing International Fiber Art Biennale
2012 Travelling Exhibition European Art Quilts VII
2012 RE Open, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London
2012, 2011 ING Discerning Eye London
2012, 2011 La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum, USA
2012, 2011 High Fiber under 5, San Jose Museum of Quilt & Textiles
2012, 2010 Wide Horizons II, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France
2012, 2009 British International Mini Print Exhibition, London
2011, 2009 Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize
2011 "Missing / Missed", Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York
2011 A Sense of Direction, Sightlines, Houston, Chicago and Long Beach, USA
Collections include:
Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel Department of Prints and Drawings, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem The Museum of Arts and Design, New York The Philadelphia Museum of Art Textile Collection, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Yale University Library, New Haven, USA Private collections in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel