Welcome to Sarah McAlister Textile Art
After many years hand making beautiful hats and caps for chaps, I am now focussing on making beautiful textile art pieces. My art pieces are made from found objects wherever possible. My art is in response to places or events.
Following completion of my MA Textiles studies, I am now able to offer creative workshops and informative talks for all levels of expertise.
You will be able to see more of what I’m up to on the Textile Art and individual project pages of this site.
Coming up…
My summer’s work is now completed and a quilt entitled “A Kindness of Strangers” was presented at the Wimbledon Art Fair. The finished quilt is going to go out “on tour” and the first exhibition venue is St John’s Church on Spencer Hill, Wimbledon, where it is currently on show inside the church.
Past Exhibitions
I was delighted to host my first solo textile art show ” A Kindness of Strangers” at the Norman Plastow Gallery, Wimbledon Village in May 2025 and made a new work in association with the adjacent Wimbledon Museum. More details can be found here
To round off a busy summer, I presented two new pieces of work at the Carousel Textile Artists’ show “River Threads” at Chelsea Library Long Gallery in June 2025.
I co-curated and showed a number of my recent pieces in a super exhibition with Canvas & Collective at Morley Gallery in March 2025. This was my first post-graduate endeavour and was very well received.
Pylon 1 won 3rd prize in the Autumn Exhibition at Badger in the Wall Gallery at Clapham-cum-Newby. More details about the pylon pieces here.
Gas Holder was exhibited at West Barnes Library in October. More details about the Gas Holder piece here
My graduation show for MA Textiles was in September at UCA Epsom Campus in Epsom
Wimbledon Arts Trail: In September 2024, I exhibited my textile art at Venue 17, a shared space with two other artists in Merton Park.
In June 2024, I had these three textile pieces at the W3 Gallery at 185 High Street Acton London W3 9DJ.
In July 2024, I took part in the Carousel Textile Group’s show at Jeannie Avent Gallery, 14 North Cross Road, East Dulwich, London SE22 9EU
Stockists:
My Yorkshire Tweed, linen, waxed cotton and summer fabric Caps for Chaps and handwoven Surrey Tweed scarves are all on sale at the Cotswold Glass and Crafts shop at 112 High Street, Burford, Oxfordshire OX18 4QJ.
Sarah McAlister 