Teresa Sullivan Beaded Tapestries

TERESA SULLIVAN Bead Tapestry and Bead Sculpture

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last updated June 2009
copyright Teresa Sullivan 2007-08

Planet Stories
10" x 7"

This was inspired by the March 1952 issue of Planet Stories, a pulp science fiction magazine. Planet Stories cover art often featured powerful, shapely women doing battle with aliens. See "Battle of the Centaurianess", pictured on the Figures page, another artwork in this series.

The way this was created was simple but challenging. Work started at the bottom, with a single string of beads following the design then worked back and forth ending at the top. Sullivan does not use a computer to select the color of each bead but intrprets them by eye. Each stitch was done in three drop peyote stitch.

Beaded Whisk Handle
16"h x 3"w x 3"d

This piece had been donated and auctioned at the Art on the Vine Auction, to benefit Oregon College of Art and Craft's scholarship program, March 15th, 2008 at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon.

Ecstasy Necklace, detail
14" x 18" as worn
beaded tapestry

See the whole tapestry on the wearable art page

TERESA SULLIVAN Bead Tapestry and Bead Sculpture
.	BEADED TAPESTRIES 503 257-2293 Email Home Figures Tapestries Found Objects and Text Adornment Workshops and Links Biography last updated June 2009 copyright Teresa Sullivan 2007-08 Planet Stories 10" x 7" This was inspired by the March 1952 issue of Planet Stories, a pulp science fiction magazine. Planet Stories cover art often featured powerful, shapely women doing battle with aliens. See "Battle of the Centaurianess", pictured on the Figures page, another artwork in this series. The way this was created was simple but challenging. Work started at the bottom, with a single string of beads following the design then worked back and forth ending at the top. Sullivan does not use a computer to select the color of each bead but intrprets them by eye. Each stitch was done in three drop peyote stitch.
	Beaded Whisk Handle 16"h x 3"w x 3"d This piece had been donated and auctioned at the Art on the Vine Auction, to benefit Oregon College of Art and Craft's scholarship program, March 15th, 2008 at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon.
	Ecstasy Necklace, detail 14" x 18" as worn beaded tapestry See the whole tapestry on the wearable art page