“I started making my felt pieces about a year ago, and they came about from an idea I had been toying with while I was looking at flat colours of felt, and wanted to create ‘tapestry-type’ work,” Cape Town-based artist Michaela Younge explains. After graduating from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2015, where she tells us she was working mainly with sculptural and print-based work, Michaela began experimenting with tapestry, using felt to tell elaborate stories via tableaux. “Working with wool fibre has allowed me to experiment with ideas that I have wanted to create but that I didn’t feel I had a medium through which to accurately portray them,” she notes.
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