Reception & talk: Wednesday 21 April, 6pm

Naori Priestly’s work is illustrative and autobiographical. She employs humour to convey the darker, more sinister side of everyday life. Working with textiles, she uses domestic craft skills, such as hand knitting, crochet, embroidery, appliqué and hand-felt, along with computer technology, such as digital embroidery.

Largely inspired by folk tales and nursery rhymes, the work has a narrative element, where reality, daydreams and nightmares merge into one surreal world. The charming and, at times, naive appearance belies the subversive concepts that influence her pieces. Naori often utilises household goods or items of clothing, skillfully transforming the mundane into sublime, bizarre and unclassifiable objects.

Naori Priestly was born in western Japan and studied sculpture in Tokyo and New York before settling in England. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2007 with a Masters Degree in Mixed Media.