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www.images-magazine.com DECEMBER 2021 images 22 KB INDUSTRY EVENT The Textile Art/Open category was won by Lesley Wood with a hand-stitched self-portrait. Second prize went to Estefania Tarud Karl, and third prize was won by Sabina Lima. First prize in the Textile Art/Student category went to Kate Pankhurst, who decorated a traditional bell alarm clock with silk dupion, Edinburgh linen, silk thread, metal purls, bright check, passing, spangles, beads, and paper-covered wires. Kate also won The Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers associate award. Second place in the Textile Art/Student category went to Alicja Kozlowska and third place to Rebecca Offredi. Other award winners at the event included Lucy Martin in the The Royal School of Needlework Associate Award for innovation and technical excellence in hand embroidery with her detailed embroidered flowers. Lucy also won The Worshipful Company of Broderers Associate Award . The Wilcom Associate Award for Digital Embroidery for Students , introduced by Wilcom Europe’s director Rob Smith, was won by Rachel Moore who explored how we use colour to express ourselves through our clothing with her garment of printed denim with chenille and Madeira rayon threads. The Wilcom Associate Award for Digital Embroidery was won by textile artist David Morrish for an art piece inspired by MC Escher’s Drawing Hands, representing his dual life as a digital embroiderer with one arm in the digital world and the other in the physical. Rob Smith commented: “The standard of work was really high, with many focusing on sustainability and garment recycling. With today’s focus on climate and eco awareness, it is good to see moves in the right direction.” T he annual Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery recognises the cutting-edge work of a new generation of garment decorators. his year’s Prize for Embroidery, which embraces both garment decorating and textile art, set a brief to designers and artists “to consider which aspects of your personal identity that are shown and which are hidden in changing contexts”, inspired by the concept of duality. The 2021 awards were presented at a ceremony as part of the Embroidered Arts Exhibition, which ran at Bargehouse at Oxo Tower Wharf in London in November. Rachel Ellenbogen won first prize in the Student Fashion category with a grey- dyed dress of post-consumer polyester decorated with a beaded design depicting images from her Instagram over the past nine years. Rachel Moore was awarded second prize and the third prize went to Millie Whitehead. Tatiana Rodina won first prize in the Open Fashion category with a floral design inspired by QR codes and made up of beads, sequins, wire and thread. Second prize went to Valerija Fic Brase, and third prize to Lucia Palma Herrán. Last month, the winners of the Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery were announced at the Embroidered Arts Exhibition. Images went along to meet the up-and- coming creative stars of the embroidery world Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery: Review Rachel Moore won the Wilcom Associate Award for Digital Embroidery with this colourful entry Tatiana Rodina was first in the Open Fashion category with her QR code-inspired design All the winners and finalists’ work was exhibited at the Embroidered Arts Exhibition along with the winners and finalists in the 2020 Prize for Embroidery, who were unable to have a show last year due to Covid restrictions. The exhibition also featured the work of Hand & Lock, which has been a specialist in embroidery for over 250 years, and pieces by leading embroiderers and textile artists of the past through to the present day, from Madge Gill to Karen Nicol. imagesmag.uk/handprize21 Rachel Ellenbogen’s winning design in the Student Fashion category