Richard McVetis at work - Photograph © Yanis Angel
Collect 2026 / Richard McVetis
"From learning embroidery as a way of communicating – like a skill or a craft – I began to think about it as a way of thinking."
Collect 2026 at Somerset House, London
25th February – 1st March 2026
By Emma Crichton-Miller / 24th February 2026
ON THE EVE of Collect Art Fair, TDE interviews the artist Richard McVetis. Currently interim Co-Head of the Textiles Department at the Royal College of Art, Richard has made embroidery a medium of formidable expressive power. In his hands, stitch becomes a marker of time and toil, as well as a means to probe his interests from outer space to microscopic details of the natural world. His beautiful, deceptively simple embroideries reward attention, opening out space for both thought and pleasure.
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