Suzanna James is a sustainable textile artist, writer and educator, originally from South Wales. She graduated with a double-scholarship MA award as a QEST Craft Scholar in Textiles from the Royal College of Art, London in 2022. She is a hand embroiderer creating lace-like structures through an innovation on European pulled-thread stitch techniques. Her work creates shifts in the original structure of woven fabrics, using absences created in warp threads, and presences of new embroidery threads, to explore the concept of textiles as language; cloth as a spokesperson.
She was selected as the 2021 Royal College of Art Research Symposium Textiles Candidate, has recently participated in an Artistic Research Fellowship in Bergen, Norway, and is a New Professional Awardee of the Textile Society of America 2024. She is also a WCFK awardee in Knitted Textiles and is represented by the Welsh craftsmanship gallery, First of March, through which her work was exhibited at Collect 2025.
