Where Process Leads: The Textile Art of Camilla Iliefski
Camilla Ilifeski is a Swedish textile artist, designer and professor at the Academy of Art and Design, HDK-Valand, in Gothenburg. Her hand tufted wall hangings travel all over the world. In her atelier she works across disciplines in design and crafts, with a deep interest in the role that process and material play in her work.
Portrait of Camilla Iliefski at work in her studio
This time, it was a pile of wool and linen yarns in pale colours lying around her atelier at Sockerbruket that caught her attention. Colour shades reminiscent of the Scandinavian summer skies. Camilla Iliefski grabbed a pen and, as usual, spent less than five minutes sketching and outlining the design directly onto the backing fabric, moving fast, but thoughtfully. Clouds; did they feel like the formations in the sky she had experienced yesterday when riding back by train from Copenhagen to Gothenburg, contemplating the vast coastal landscape? She framed the fabric and began to punch yarn through it with a tufting gun...
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Words by Petra Dokken
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Image Credits:
Lead: The Garden in a Dream, Camilla Iliefski. Public art commission for the City of Borås.
Completed and installed in November 2024. Photo: Sebastian Waldenby
All further images as credited in photo captions.
Photos Mike Karlsson Lundgren and Sebastian Waldenby