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JESS DE WAHLS
Putting on a Brave Face
Putting on a Brave Face

Putting on a Brave Face

Nevertheless, She Persisted

Nevertheless, She Persisted

No CIS in Team

No CIS in Team

Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Something Went Terribly Wrong...

Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Something Went Terribly Wrong...

Mounted in a 3.5cm deep box frame, this piece is very special as it has changed the entire course of my career and got me temporarily cancelled. The accompanying essay can be found on my website and rest assured I stand by every single word I wrote and every stitch I made now as I have done when i first released it. This original and much loved as well as much hated piece is mounted floating.

The measurements of the frame are 37cm x 69cm.

They Call Me TERF To Shut Me Down

They Call Me TERF To Shut Me Down

During repeated attacks on my person and my career for daring to question the popular narrative and speaking out against it, iI have been called numerous names. TERF being one of them.

I created this series of self-portraits during the weeks and month of concerted online harassment.

Available in Greyscale, CMYK and ‘Normal’

Ode To Joy - She Came, She Saw, She Conquered

Ode To Joy - She Came, She Saw, She Conquered

Mounted in a very deep custom circular frame, this ‘Orgasm Flower’ is based on pictures of the moment of orgasming women (mostly strangers from the internet who responded to my call out on social media).

Female orgasm is to date still a largely understudied field and something that deserves closer observation as well as more in depth conversation. This piece celebrates something that has for far to long be seen as something unimportant.

Measurements are 59cm diameter x 21cm depth.

It's Raining Men

It's Raining Men

An homage to New Yorks finest, this hand-embroidered piece is inspired by Brigid Berlin, Andy Warhol’s side-kick who herself was a prolific needlepoint artist.

The mounted and framed piece measures 34cm x 34cm

Never Trust a Bitch Who Does Vagina Art

Never Trust a Bitch Who Does Vagina Art

Directly inspired by the vile misogyny that many men display in the name of “trans-rights”, this is an embroidery of a tweet of somebody published about me.

Always be careful who you tweet about. it might just become art.

Natural Habitat

Natural Habitat

Framed Hand Embroidery

56cm x 56cm

The 'Notorious' JKR

The 'Notorious' JKR

Inspired by the one and only JK Rowling, this original hand-embroidery of her likeness and one of her epic tweets, is mounted and framed with the total dimensions measuring 50cm x60cm.

The piece is neither commissioned nor endorsed by JK herself. It is simply a work stitched in deep admiration of and solidarity with her bravery.

And if it Was Fashion to Hit Their Nails Blue, it's What They'd Do

And if it Was Fashion to Hit Their Nails Blue, it's What They'd Do

Inspired by something my mum often repeated when I was growing up, this visualised saying is a re-interpretation of an Erich Kaestner Poem which seems more apt than ever before.

Framed and mounted in a deep box frame, this piece measures 45.5cm x 62.5 x 4cm

Creativity is Intelligence Having Fun

Creativity is Intelligence Having Fun

Inspired by a quote by Albert Einstein, this hand embroidery is an ode to my greatest passion.

This is an original piece, based on my hand and tattoo.

Measurements of framed piece: 41cm x 41cm x 5.5cm

Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast

Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast

Original hand embroidery, framed and mounted ‘free-floating’.

#ProLife

#ProLife

A visual comment on America’s contradictory stance on gun-vs abortion laws (obviously generalised) depicting Emma Gonzales, one of the survivors of the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting. #ProLife explores the hypocrisy between wanting to protect unborn life through strict anti-abortion laws while hanging on to outdated notions that everybody must have the right to bear arms.

This piece has been exhibited internationally and is mounted in a large quilting hoop, measuring 72cm x 42cm

#ProLife (detail)

#ProLife (detail)

A Patch of Grass - Detail from Great Piece of Turf by Albrecht Duerer

A Patch of Grass - Detail from Great Piece of Turf by Albrecht Duerer

Having been one of my earliest inspirations by another artist, this section of Duerers ‘Great Piece Of Turf’(1503) is a fully hand-embroidered replica.

Framed in a black wooden box-frame, this piece (including frame) measures 23cm x 23cm x 3.5cm

Conceptual, Katie Perry

Conceptual, Katie Perry

This fully embroidered box-shaped embroidery was created as part of an ad campaign for a Katy Perry perfume and served as a dancing prop in a stop-motion animation for social media. It is now mounted on a textile background and framed in a box-frame measuring 33cm x 33cm x 3.5cm

Floral

Floral

Original floral hand embroidery mounted in a 12” x 8” oval hoop.

HERETIC

HERETIC

Part of the HERETIC designs, this piece is mounted and framed in a square black wooden box frame, measuring 23cm x 23xm x5cm

Mangroveries

Mangroveries

My Pandemic Epiphany

My Pandemic Epiphany

This original hand embroidery is based on one of the more insane headlines the guardian produced in 2020.

The mounted and framed piece measures 33ch x 33cm

#NoThankYou

#NoThankYou

Framed hand embroidery 33.5cm x 33.5cm

Space Gal

Space Gal

Mounted in a handmade circular frame, this piece is an embroidered portrait of Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso.

Stormé DeLarverie

Stormé DeLarverie

Based on the legendary Stormé DeLarverie, the butch lesbian that has long been rumoured to have thrown the first brick that kicked off the Stonewall riots, this hand-embroidered piece is mounted floating in a deep box frame.

Measurements: 33.5cm x 33.5cm x 3.5cm

This Too Shall Pass

This Too Shall Pass

Hand embroidery 35.5cm x 35.5cm

Tints, Tones, Shades and Colour Wheel

Tints, Tones, Shades and Colour Wheel

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Putting on a Brave Face
Nevertheless, She Persisted
No CIS in Team
Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Something Went Terribly Wrong...
They Call Me TERF To Shut Me Down
Ode To Joy - She Came, She Saw, She Conquered
It's Raining Men
Never Trust a Bitch Who Does Vagina Art
Natural Habitat
The 'Notorious' JKR
And if it Was Fashion to Hit Their Nails Blue, it's What They'd Do
Creativity is Intelligence Having Fun
Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast
#ProLife
#ProLife (detail)
A Patch of Grass - Detail from Great Piece of Turf by Albrecht Duerer
Conceptual, Katie Perry
Floral
HERETIC
Mangroveries
My Pandemic Epiphany
#NoThankYou
Space Gal
Stormé DeLarverie
This Too Shall Pass
Tints, Tones, Shades and Colour Wheel
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