TRISHA STONE

ARTIST BIO

Trisha Stone is an artist with a background in textiles and a strong commitment to material-led innovation.

Since completing her MA, she has developed a distinctive approach to photo collage, among other techniques, using digital manipulation and unconventional processes to transform repurposed everyday materials into thought-provoking visual narratives.

Her work begins with objects often dismissed or discarded—plastic milk bottles, Ethernet cables, worn denim—materials that carry embedded stories of labour, consumption, and identity. Through collage and digital intervention, Stone reframes these narratives, challenging traditional distinctions between craft and technology while opening new ways of thinking about memory, sustainability, and the circular economy.
Stone is drawn to the intersection of digital media and the handmade. This hybrid methodology enables her to explore the poetic potential of utilitarian materials while pushing the boundaries of contemporary image-making. Her limited-edition prints invite viewers to reconsider the familiar yet overlooked, encouraging reflection and deeper engagement with the textures of everyday life.

Each composition is constructed from layered fragments of photographs, textiles, and light, forming resonant visual narratives that evoke a sense of place and time. Grounded in material history yet shaped by contemporary digital tools, Stone’s work offers a distinctive voice within the digital art landscape—one that honours the past while embracing the transformative possibilities of the future.


ARTIST STATEMENT

I work with repurposed materials and techniques often alien to traditional repertoire. I seek to employ these in ways that change the typical understanding of arts/crafts and the making process. By challenging how people view materials and their purpose, I aim to give people a new way of experiencing them as new forms.

By creating objects and images this way, I give them an altered life and meaning that comments on personal and universal experiences. Previous work involved using plastic milk bottles and ethernet cables.

Currently, I am focusing on repurposing denim jeans using a photomontage technique which I have developed. This series, “Chromos”, was generated over several years firstly as a standing piece with 23 pairs of jeans (the number of human chromosome pairs) as “Jean Theory.” Subsequently, these were individually photographed, and sections were used to build the photomontages.

This work , “Recycled Genes”, is an exercise/process of gathering ideas across time, place, memory, and identity to bring new interpretations and insight into issues. I like to work in series as this enables me to penetrate ideas and techniques with greater depth. Giving time and purpose to my making alongside research in both historical and contemporary techniques allows the transference of ideas into pieces which are dictated through the physicality of each material employed.

I am a member of Vale Yard Studios, Portslade, West Sussex, United Kingdom.