Fay McCaul
Textile creator
London, United Kingdom
A sense of scale
- Fay creates innovative new techniques
- She combines tradition with experimentation
- Her creative processes often result in unexpected outcomes
Fay McCaul creates luminous knitted panels inspired by architectural forms. Her pieces incorporate a mix of reflective materials inside knitted pockets. She builds up rows of pockets and places tiles of various materials inside: plastic, mirrored, painted plywood, and etched metal. These inclusions give Fay’s textiles a quality of light and movement not found in traditional fabrics. She has also invented an entirely new textile surface that encapsulates reflective materials via a heat bonding process. Fay’s work has been exhibited widely from London to Shanghai and been featured in Elle Decoration, Design Boom and Architectural Digest.
INTERVIEW
This is something that I enjoy doing - juxtaposing the traditional technique of knitting with innovative materials. It often creates a very unique and unexpected outcome such as surfaces that look solid but are actually soft and malleable.
At Royal College of Art, I began knitting with fibre optics and electroluminescent wire. Being new to knitting I approached it from an unusual angle. I created a light in the form of a conch shell, the whole thing glowed. It was rather spectacular.
My process is more material led than technique led. I use knitting as a means to hold my materials in place, to connect them together to form surface and structure. I’ve always been a bit of a magpie; drawn to materials that play with light in some way.
I love the problem solving element of it. For example, changing my materials or tweaking my techniques to work to a client’s brief. It means I’m constantly challenging myself, discovering new ways to create my work. It is forever evolving and never boring.
Fay McCaul
Textile creator
London, United Kingdom
AVAILABILITY
By appointment only
PHONE
+44 7940570546
LANGUAGES
English
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