Venue 1: Elys, top floor
The Cobalt Stitch
Textile
The Cobalt Stitch is a contemporary textile art studio founded in 2025 using stitches as a creative tool and exploring embroidery, quilting and appliqué. The main theme is the celebration of life in natural and human forms. They create work to celebrate how precious life is. They use hand stitch to slow down their process, and to provide more control in the making process.
They believe that stitching provides joy and calmness and that the repetitive nature of creating in this way can be a form of meditation. The studio uses natural fabrics to feel their warmth and comfort, and to connect to the materials and processes which have been passed down through generations.