ARADNE

Aradne (b. 1954) is a textile artist who uses free-hand machine embroidery in an intuitive manner to create images that evoke the magic and darkness of her childhood spent in South Africa. With the embroidery she creates figures, birds, insects, flowers and text that come together to form structures that she calls ‘textile collages’. Aradne does not draw onto the fabric first, but stitches straight on without a plan. Each web-like structure is created on fine muslin, nylon or dissolvable fabric. She sometimes incorporates previous works into new creations, until she feels satisfied that it conveys the message that she wishes to get across.

Aradne has had a solo show at the Merston Gallery in Chichester, as well as having been part of group exhibitions across the UK. Her work is in the collection of the College of Psychic Studies in London, and the Outsider Art Museum in Amsterdam. She likes the privacy and anonymity that the name Aradne brings.

“I hate to say that I am an artist … we are all capable of being artists … if people really like things that I have made, then that makes me happy.”

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2026 Outsider Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York
2026 Troublemakers and Prophets: Elizabeth Allen and Other Visionary Artists, Compton Verney, Warwick
2022 Aradne, Copenghan Outsider Art Gallery, Copenhagen
2020-21 Kohtalona Luovuus, ITE Museum, Finland
2018 It's Alright, Copenhagen Outsider Art Gallery, Copenhagen
2018 Outside In: Journeys, Sotheby's, London
2017 Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making, National touring exhibition, UK
2016 Encounters with the Spirit World, College of Psychic Studies, London
2015 Intuitive Visions: Shifting the Margins, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2014 Bold Vision: Outsiders in Black and White, Julian Hartnoll Gallery, London
2013 Aradne-Mindscapes: Solo exhibition, Merston Gallery, Chichester
2012 Outside In: National, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2019 Freedom exhibition, Forge Mill Needle Museum, Redditch