About

Ericka Peachey is a textile artist and embroidery technician based in Nottingham.

She works with a variety of techniques including digital embroidery, hand embroidery and cyanotype printing. Her work focuses on the role textiles, clothing and fabrics play in invoking memory and connections to personal histories. She interprets different ways of capturing the passage of time by using stitch journalling, photography, cyanotype printing and visual and written documentation.

As well as taking an autoethnographic approach to her textile work, Ericka is also interested in understanding other people’s connections to clothing and fabrics and how this relates to sustainability and emotional durability.

She is carrying out her own ongoing research project investigating emotional connections to textiles and fabric to help understand sentimentality and attachment. She undertakes participant interviews alongside the visual documentation of their clothing or fabric items.

Ericka gained a BA Hons in Textile Design specialising in Embroidery in 2007 from Nottingham Trent University and currently works as an Embroidery Technical Specialist.