Theresa Honeywell, a Washington DC native with a Masters Degree in sculpture, is best known for her knitted and crocheted interpretations of hard, rough everyday items.
Provocative imagery and macho icons are rendered into delicate and beautiful pieces of art that seem to question the notion of what art is, and what is “only” a handicraft. Her work is very labor intensive and extremely detail oriented. She takes an "old lady" craft that is considered to be “pretty” and merely decorative, and creates art that comments on societies rigid notions of gender roles and high/low culture.
Her work is currently being shown all over North America and she is looked upon as a goddess among other textile artists and grandmas the world over.
Above: old school tattoo flash made of delicate lace.
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