Australian artist Sera Walters is a visual artist and arts writer based in Adelaide, South Australia. Her artworks take the decorative mediums of fabric, felt, lace, cross-stitch sequins and beads and use them to illustrate the darker side of life.
In her own words she uses the "language of stitch, using French-knots, silk-shading, beads or black-work" to "pierce fabrics with recollections of drama, disaster, misdemeanours and petty crime".
Her crafty art brings to life the effect she imagines that surburban dramas have on the homes they happen in. So the soft furnishings, curtains and every day fabrics of home have a more sinister story stitched on them.
Her Buthering series, featuring stitched and sequinned cuts of meat and ice crystals along with a rather sinister knife and cleaver sewn with elements of glow-in-the-dark thread, is unsettlingly lovely.
