Artworks
Ferren Gipson’s art practice engages with themes of materiality, spirituality, identity, & creativity as an act of healing and power.
Working with a blend of sewn and woven materials, Ferren draws on Black Southern American traditions and the iconography that has travelled across generations and geographies. Each piece is an attempt at recovery and reclamation of a technique, an identity, or a connection. She is drawn to the ways that skill and creativity pass between generations of women, and to what it means to bear the fruit of the seeds planted by our foremothers.
Complements, 2022, linen and cotton with hand-stitched sashiko thread (Photo credit: Keith Lubow)
Untitled, 2026, handwoven cotton and linen top, cotton back, bamboo batting, hand quilted with cotton thread
Happier Than (detail), 2024, handwoven cotton and linen top, linen back, handstitched with sashiko thread
Happier Than, 2024, handwoven cotton and linen top, linen back, handstitched with sashiko thread (Photo credit: Tom Leighton)
Commissioned quilt square for Liberty Patchwork Collective, 2025, hand-quilted fabric, cotton, and wool on Liberty fabric.
Commissioned quilt square for Liberty Patchwork Collective, 2025, hand-quilted fabric, cotton, and wool on Liberty fabric.
All up in the Kool-Aid (detail), 2024, handwoven cotton top, cotton and linen back, handstitched with sashiko thread
Culmination II, 2023, hand-quilted fabric, cotton, and wool on linen canvas
Culmination I, 2023, hand-quilted fabric, cotton (Photo credit: Damien Griffiths)
I am Not a Machine, 2022, stretched linen and silk fabric (Photo credit: Keith Lubow)
Seeing, 2022, vinyl and wood (Photo credit: Keith Lubow)