MATERIA POETICA
Hand-Stitched Collage
by the Poet
DEBORA GREGER
PRIVATE VIEW
6-8pm Thursday 11th July
The Exhibition continues through Wednesday 31st July

The workings of one of the collages.
“My collages begin in piles of paper – people, windows, planets, snakes, bugs – snipped from illustrated books. I use embroidery scissors made in Germany, found in my quest for a very fine, sharp point and blade. The idea for a collage begins in the images, which suggest possibilities I didn’t expect. When I took up collage after art school, I glued though not as well as I cut. Glue showed, paper buckled, so I started sewing down the scraps with monofilament nylon thread, lighter gauge than fishing line. The colored stitching on some collages is cotton embroidery floss. When I was six or seven, my mother taught me to sew. After her children were grown, she turned to making fabric kites and writing books about kite-making, which became best-sellers. In ways I could not have foreseen, I have become my mother’s daughter.”
Debora Greger (Cambridge, 2019)
NOTHING WILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE EXHIBITION OPENS AT
6PM ON THURSDAY 11TH JULY 2019
1. ‘Snowy Hare and Shuttlecock’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
2. ‘After Eden came Male Finery’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 11.75x8.25 inches.
3. ‘After Eden came Gardening’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches. £775.
4. ‘After Eden came the Curtain, II’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
5. ‘After Eden came the Still Life’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
6. ‘After Eden came Wallpaper, I’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
7. ‘At the Edge of the Old World, II’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 16.5x11.75 inches.
8. ‘After Eden, Eve, I’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches. £775.
9. ‘To Mrs Delany, IV’. ‘Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 11.75x8.25 inches.
10. ‘To Mrs Delany, VI’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 11.75x8.25 inches.
11. ‘An Ordinary Evening’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
12. ‘At the Edge of the Old World, III’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 11.75x8.75 inches.
13. ‘Two Owls’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
14. ‘After Eden, Eve, II’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
15. ‘Portrait with Mirror Broken’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
16. ‘After Eden came Wallpaper, III’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
17. ‘Late at Night, in the Kitchen, II’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches. £775.
18. ‘After Eden came Wallpaper, II’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
19. ‘Materia Poetica: White, V’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 16.5x11.75 inches.
20. ‘Materia Poetica: White, II’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 16.5x11.75 inches. £775.
21. ‘To Mrs Delany, V’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 11.75x8.25 inches.
22. ‘Mask, II’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 11.5x9.75 inches.
23. ‘Materia Poetica: White, IV’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 16.5x11.75 inches.
24. ‘Lost Bird’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 10.75x8.25 inches.
25. ‘The Cover of Darkness, II’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
26. ‘After Eden came Wallpaper, IV’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
27. 'To Mrs Delany, III’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 11.75x8.25 inches.
28. ‘To Mrs Delany, I’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 14x11 inches.
29. ‘The Cover of Darkness, I’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 18x12 inches.
30. ‘In Bartram’s Garden, I’. Collage hand stitched onto black paper. Signed. 16.5x11.75 inches.