New Zealand born Maxine Parkin-Jones has spent her life exploring and discovering the potential of textiles to produce innovative and distinctive works. In 1987 inspired by these materials she created a new art form – soft calico sculptures, depicting the human face, and full length bodies then developing a robust stiffened calico fibre sculpture with finishes of paint, spray, verdi gris, and natural toning.

Maxine then experimented with textured and textile abstract canvases with multi media finishes, her favourite being the 'Geisha' which incorporated multi layers of Japanese papers finished using complex application techniques.

There was a natural progression to delve deeper into an organic by hand process which turned into collections of oversized jewellery wall hangings.

Examples of her work are found in foyers restaurants and in private and corporate collections throughout the world.

Maxine is spending 2011-13 experimenting with deconstructing textiles and fibres to create her own sculptural forms these fibres will be integrated with perspex, mixed media, copper and light.

Last updated 14 December 2011