Community Textile Practice
Selected Work
Javiera Sandoval Limarí
Hola, I am Javiera, a Chilean artist and educator. A long time ago I was a primary school teacher and loved it. Now, since I migrated to the UK, I've been developing my skills as a researcher, educator in informal contexts inside and outside schools and charities, and as an artist. I am a musician and textile artist. My music creation is under the umbrella of Imperio Bamba; we perform delicious Cumbia. My textile practice has been developing in community, with my friends and comrades from AMPLA and with the support of Cubitt Gallery and previously Gasworks Gallery.
Studio Practice
My studio is located in a secondary school in North London, supported by Cubitt Artists.
My studio practice revolves around sewing and crocheting. Here, I also collaborate with Cubitt Gallery, offering a lunchtime club open to young people.
This space forms the foundation for the proposed community sewing sessions, enabling accessible, shared making within a familiar environment.
Machine Work & Textile Experiments
My textile practice explores machine drawing, repair, adaptation, dressmaking, and embodied mark-making. I work across sewing and crochet as relational and material forms of inquiry.
Dressmaking for Imperio Bamba
Textile and Crochet Research
During my doctoral research, I used creative sewing and crochet as embodied methods of analysing ethnographic material. This research informs my approach to textiles as relational practice and collective authorship.
The theoretical reflections around these works can be found here
Community Work – Manos Creando: series of workshops and exhibition
Previous participatory workshops with AMPLA and community partners. I curated and secured funding for the project, which involved 12 Latin American artists and the AMPLA community of first- and second-generation migrants from Latin America, in a two-year programme, supported by Lambeth Council and UCL.
