BA Illustration wall hanging made from different shades of blue fabric pieces produced through cyanotype, hand stitched together to create a map composition of Norwich city highlighting some of the Haunted hotspots.

I am an illustrator, maker and visual communicator with a process-led approach to creative work. I specialise in collage, driven by my use of colour, form, and composition with a considered and extensive use of materials. My practice involves textile-based techniques, like embroidery, dying and printing on fabric. Producing work like this has been particularly liberating and has created a lot of exciting new avenues for how I want to work.

BA Illustration work by Madeleine Bullingham showing a patchwork wall hanging of dyed fabric hand stitched and embroidered into.

Working with textiles is not unfamiliar to me, and I have found my practice coming full circle with the decision to sew and embroider as a way of drawing. My enthusiasm to stitch and combine materials came back through my foundation year, so I decided to combine mixed media and stitch into my Illustration degree from the get-go.

BA Illustration edits by Madeleine Bullingham of small scale details of blue cyanotype images of buildings, captured from the larger scale wall hanging.
BA Illustration cyanotype print on fabric by Madeleine Bullingham depicting Norwich castle with hand stitched details.