Amelia Cross (b. 1995) is a British artist, born and based in London. Following an early career in tailoring and womenswear design, her practice focuses on uncovering confessions through the mediums of painting, pattern-cutting and sewing.

Guided by questions surrounding uniforms and rules, Cross studies the codification of dress and unspoken systems of how we construct identity through garments. This research of the clothed form is examined by introducing the craft of pattern-cutting to the painted canvas, resulting in a new form of trompe l’œil defined as the ‘Sewn Painting’:

sewn painting (n.) “that which surface is painted on and constructed by means of needle and thread”

These works occupy a space in-between the binary conditions of the painterly and the sculptural: not quite a painting but not quite a garment.