Threads of inspiration: Fabric portraits of Female Artists - Lily Yeh

I doubt if you have heard of this artist! Another artist who I first became aware of on my Masters Degree at University of Brighton on my Participatory practice for social change module. Yeh’s work is rooted in social practise and has taken her to the world’s most troubled areas, on a quest to create community-based art projects. Yeh started off exhibiting in a gallery and thought that was the way she would go as an artist until a friend approached her, the noted Philadelphia dancer and educator Arthur Hall, and asked her to create a park in an abandoned  lot adjacent to his building. This was the beginning of a completely new way of working as an artist for Yeh.

Lily Yeh set up Barefoot artists and has transformed spaces from Taiwan to Rwanda. The whole community get involved in the work, they take back the spaces and with the help of Yeh, turn these run down buildings and parking lots into beautiful gardens with mosaic walls, painted fresco’s and vegetable gardens.

If you like community art then i urge you to look up this very important artist.