Nature Embroidered: The Art of Myrtie Cope

This exhibition consists of photographs of nature which have been hand embroidered with cotton or silk embroidery thread. With a background in textiles and sewing, the photographer has incorporated her sewing skills into her photographs, both black and white images and color images. The embroidery adds texture and interest to landscapes and nature photos and, on some photos, creates an abstract impression. The stitches focus on different areas of the photos and some images have been layered to create dimension. Beads and buttons have also been incorporated into some of the photos. The embroidery takes photography in a new direction.

About the Artist:

Myrtie Cope has been focusing on nature, landscape, and architectural photography since graduating from the photography program at Rocky Mountain School of Photography in 2008. She is honored to have photos in several private and public collections around Atlanta including the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport and Emory University Hospital Tower. She has won numerous awards for her work which has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. Her winning images have been exhibited multiple times in the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers at Fotonostrum Gallery in Barcelona, Spain.

Her body of work, “Nature Embroidered”, was one of the projects featured in All About Photo Magazine’s Nature issue in September 2023. As the recipient of the Juror's Award for the “Trees” Exhibition at A Smith Gallery, her embroidered images were in a solo online exhibition. In 2024, Ms. Cope was awarded the Williams Family Distinguished Fellowship in Photography and an artist residency at Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences.

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