1980s coding map
1980s coding map

Mixed Media

1980s coding map

1980s computer coding with postcard map

All I read are picture books
All I read are picture books

Mixed Media

All I read are picture books

altering a boring book into a picture book

Bang: Oswald slain in Jail shift
Bang: Oswald slain in Jail shift

Textiles

Bang: Oswald slain in Jail shift

Newspaper from 1963 which i have embroidered the words entirely. this was the moment was when Lee Harvey Oswald got shot.

Colourful tintypes
Colourful tintypes

Mixed Media

Colourful tintypes

Tintypes with felt and hand embroidery

Health of our body
Health of our body

Textiles

Health of our body

Using crochet work and an old family album and medical documents I ended up bringing the beauty of our bodies alive with beads

Mirrors don’t lie
Mirrors don’t lie

Mixed Media

Mirrors don’t lie

Altered mirror : who am I ? I am me

Misshapen new world map
Misshapen new world map

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Misshapen new world map

Using three national geographic maps which I altered and disarranged I ended up turning it into a whole another map of foreignness

My sacreligious bible
My sacreligious bible

Textiles

My sacreligious bible

Using an antique bible I screenprinted and embrodiered it my thoughts of the time in February 2020

Oliver Twist !
Oliver Twist !

Textiles

Oliver Twist !

My interpretation of the famous scene of Oliver Twist made with reworked fabrics and sewing machine

Places I want to go to
Places I want to go to

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Places I want to go to

Using postage stamps and beads i weaved my heart to all the places I wanted to go to but couldn’t because of the pandemic

Plastic mapping of my heritage
Plastic mapping of my heritage

Textiles

Plastic mapping of my heritage

Trying to understand my true heritage coming from an immigrant family i embroidered the cities my parents are from ; Palermo Sicily and Nyíregyháza Hungary

Protect us against Covid 19
Protect us against Covid 19

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Protect us against Covid 19

Old cdv ( antique photos from 1800s) images which I have embroidered from times in history that they have used masks to protect themselves from Covid 19

Rainbow receipt
Rainbow receipt

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Rainbow receipt

Using sainsburys receipts from when I was living in England i embrodiered the text in different colours

Snow White and the dwarfs
Snow White and the dwarfs

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Snow White and the dwarfs

Altered book made with embroidery thread, buttons and love to turn this old book into panels of the story of Snow white

Spring postcard
Spring postcard

Mixed Media

Spring postcard

Reworked postcard

Story of Elayne
Story of Elayne

Mixed Media

Story of Elayne

The story of elayne - fair maiden of folk England

telegram from 1942
telegram from 1942

Mixed Media

telegram from 1942

machine embroidered telegram from 1942

Timon of Athens book by William Shakespeare
Timon of Athens book by William Shakespeare

Textiles

Timon of Athens book by William Shakespeare

Embroidered antique book made with beads, thread and paper to turn a average book into a textile book

Work by

Athena Nemeth

textile artist

“Focusing on working with biodegrabable items that I can dissect and rip apart and turn into a completely different foreign object you wouldn’t imagine. I love to work with thread because it has this...” [More]