I am a UK based textile artist working with themes of fragility and transience, primarily in relation to the environment but also that of the human condition. I create two and three dimensional installation, sculptural and wall pieces using stitch, collage and moulding techniques. Papers of all kinds, silks and silk fibres are my favoured materials. A recent body of work ‘Fragile Earth’ evokes natural forms in white, ephemeral materials, creating a delicate landscape which may either be seen as the ghostly remains of what we once had but have now lost, or a fragile ecosystem which may still be saved if we take the right decisions now. Its development was helped by a grant from Arts Council England and it has been shown in 5 solo UK exhibitions with another in Sydney, Australia in February 2026. I have also produced work about burnt landscapes. In 2024 a costume called ‘After the Bushfires: Regeneration’ won the Major Award at a wearable paper art exhibition, Paper on Skin, in Tasmania, for its depiction of the regeneration of the bush after the devastating Australian fires of 2019/20. My installations have been selected for Wells Art Contemporary at Wells Cathedral in 2022 and 2024 and The John Ruskin Prize in 2024 and 2025. A stitched paper piece called Disasters of War, evoking the suffering of women and children in war, won the Fiber Art International Grand Prize in Pittsburgh, USA in 2025, and I was awarded the Women in Art Sculpture prize 2025 for another stitched paper piece named ‘Lost Souls’

https://www.sallybaldwin.co.uk/