Nerissa Cargill Thompson

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“Contemporary Textiles Artist creating art, sculpture and jewellery using recycled fabric and concrete.”

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  • Coastal Dreams: Double Sunburst - Textile Art

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    £750.00

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  • Message in a Bottle: Family Pack- sculpture from recycled materials

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    £600.00

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  • Coastal Dreams: Sand or Stone - Textile Art  in wood frames

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    £155.00

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  • Coastal Dreams Textile Art: Maritime Sunburst III - FRAMED

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  • Crevice I - sculpture from recycled materials

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    £150.00

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  • Message in a Bottle: 3 Green Bottles - sculpture from recycled materials

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    £450.00

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  • No Man is an Island - Bushfires I FRAMED

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    £225.00

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  • No Man is an Island - Fire FRAMED

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  • No Man is an Island - Island FRAMED

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  • Message in a Bottle - sculpture from recycled materials (standard light green)

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  • Message in a Bottle - sculpture from recycled materials (standard green)

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  • Message in a Bottle - sculpture from recycled materials (large yellow)

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    £255.00

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  • Message in a Bottle - sculpture from recycled materials (medium yellow)

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    £195.00

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  • Message in a Bottle - sculpture from recycled materials (standard shelf white)

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  • Message in a Bottle - sculpture from recycled materials (large dark green)

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  • Message in a Bottle - sculpture from recycled materials (large soft green)

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  • Message in a Bottle - sculpture from recycled materials (large white)

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  • Message in a Bottle - sculpture from recycled materials (large yellow)

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  • Waist:Waste Shell & plinth - sculpture from recycled materials

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  • Edgelands Textile Art series - UNFRAMED

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    £90.00

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  • Abstract Textile Art - UNFRAMED

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    £55.00

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  • Abstract Textile Art Diptych - UNFRAMED

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    £100.00

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  • Coastal Dreams Textile Art Blue Haze

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    £350.00

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  • Coastal Dreams Textile Art Maritime Sunburst

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  • Square Coastal Dreams Textile Mini Art Maritime Sunburst Yellow - UNFRAMED

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    £50.00

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  • Coastal inspired Textile Ultra Mini Art in maritime sunburst

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    £30.00

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  • Stripey Grey Wrist Warmers Upcycled from Lambswool and Angora Cardigan

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  • Nordic Grey Wrist Warmers Upcycled from Wool Mix Jumpers

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  • Cream Wrist Warmers ribbed detail Upcycled from wool jumper

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  • Lightweight Pale Turquoise Duck Egg Wrist warmers from upcycled Acrylic Jumper

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  • Snuggly Fawn Wrist Warmers navy detail Upcycled from Soft wool mix nordic jumper

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  • Lightweight Deep Teal Blue Wrist warmers from upcycled 100% wool Jumper

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  • Snuggly Grey Wrist Warmers pink and brown detail Upcycled from acrylic jumper

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  • Snuggly Grey Wrist Warmers Upcycled from old knitwear NOT WOOL

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  • Charcoal grey and rust Wrist Warmers Upcycled from old knitwear wool mix

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  • Coastal Dreams Textile Art: Maritime Sunburst - UNFRAMED

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  • Coastal Dreams Applique Cushion from Recycled Materials with British Wool pads.

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  • Coastal Dreams Applique Cushion from Recycled Materials with British Wool pads.

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  • Coastal Dreams Applique Cushion from Recycled Materials with British Wool pads.

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  • Fake Pebbles from Recycled Clothing - pin cushion, home decor or pet pebble.

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    £12.00 £9.00 (25% off)

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  • Coastal Dreams Textile Art: Sea Foam - UNFRAMED

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  • Coastal Dreams Textile Art: Sandy Shores - UNFRAMED

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  • Yellow Abstract Embellished Recycled Textile 50mm Brooches

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    £22.00

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  • Blue Green Abstract Embellished Recycled Textile 50mm Brooches

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  • Embroidered Shell Pendant with Yellow detail

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    £29.00

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  • Embroidered Shell Brooch

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  • Teal Abstract Embellished Recycled Textile 50mm Brooches for Wearable Art

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  • Blue Green Abstract Embellished Recycled Textile 50mm Brooches

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  • Green Abstract Embellished Recycled Textile 50mm Brooches

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  • Mustard Yellow Textile and Concrete Mixed Media 50mm Round Brooches

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  • Aqua Blue Textile and Concrete Mixed Media Round 50mm Brooches

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  • Light Green Textile and Concrete Mixed Media Round 50mm Brooches

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  • Mustard Yellow Cog Textile and Concrete Mixed Media 50mm Round Brooches

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    £22.00 £15.00 (32% off)

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  • Green or Yellow Textile and Concrete Mixed Media Pendant Necklace

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    £29.00

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  • Coastal inspired Textile Ultra Mini Art in yellow or blue

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  • Yellow & Grey Coastal inspired Textile Ultra Mini Magnetic Art

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  • Square Abstract Textile Mini Art in Blue

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  • Square Coastal inspired Textile Mini Art in Green

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  • Blue Green Coastal inspired Textile Mini Art

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  • Square Abstract Textile Mini Art in Yellow Orange

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About Nerissa Cargill Thompson

Nerissa Cargill Thompson

Art, sculpture & jewellery created from recycled fabric and cement.

Bio:

Designer, maker and facilitator with over 20 years experience of professional and community practice. Originally trained in Theatre Design but through my community arts practice, my interest in fibre art grew and a desire to develop personal artwork. Recent graduate in MA Textile Practice from Manchester School of Art. Member of Prism Contemporary Textiles Collective, Society of Embroidered Work, Precious Collective and Society of British Theatre Design. AKA Concrete Litter Girl.

Artist statement:

Through three-dimensional textiles and photography, I investigate how things change appearance & shape over time, not just eroding or decaying but also new layers of growth, giving interesting juxtapositions of structure and colour. I use old clothes and scrap materials for both economic & ecological sustainability.

Recent sculptural work highlights the issue of plastic pollution and climate change. It invites us to consider the packaging that we use and discard on a daily basis; objects such as drinks bottles that are so lightweight and seem so insignificant that we barely notice them. Casting them in cement to make them heavy and solid, I hope to convey the weight of the issue and the permanence of these disposables. The incorporation of detailed embroidery touches upon the way our waste becomes subsumed into the natural world around us. However, the pretty, colourful lichens and molluscs fail to obliterate the hulking, grey, concrete textures that peer out from beneath them.

How I Make my Work:

My sculptures are formed using a combination of embellishing and embroidery to create coastal inspired textures, blending a variety of recycled fabrics to create subtle variations in tone. I stitch the resulting textiles inside waste plastic that I use to cast true to life pieces with cement, giving a distinct contrast between the manmade structure of the packaging and the soft natural textures. To limit waste, I use my textile offcuts to make jewellery and magnets, own their own or cast with cement in old food packaging.

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