An interview with
Dalia James
Dalia James is an artist, a producer of fine textiles with an irrepressible love of colour. She is also a Belvedere wearer.
We asked her some questions about her weaving and warp and weft and spectacles and everything in between.
Cubitts: What word would people use to describe you?
Dalia: Creative? Pedantic?
C: What three words would you use to describe yourself?
D: Organised, colour-obsessed (it counts OK!) and inquisitive.
C: What is the most beautiful thing in the world?
D: Colour.
C: Why do you make textile art?
D: I don't like the term textile art, it sounds like it is a lesser discipline than the 'traditional' ones. I create art because I can, I just happen to use a loom to create rather than a paint brush or a chisel. I come from a creative family and my mother named me after Salvador Dali so perhaps it's fate.
We asked her some questions about her weaving and warp and weft and spectacles and everything in between.
Cubitts: What word would people use to describe you?
Dalia: Creative? Pedantic?
C: What three words would you use to describe yourself?
D: Organised, colour-obsessed (it counts OK!) and inquisitive.
C: What is the most beautiful thing in the world?
D: Colour.
C: Why do you make textile art?
D: I don't like the term textile art, it sounds like it is a lesser discipline than the 'traditional' ones. I create art because I can, I just happen to use a loom to create rather than a paint brush or a chisel. I come from a creative family and my mother named me after Salvador Dali so perhaps it's fate.
C: Tell me a story about yourself in 10 words or less.
D: My twin and I once switched places at school.
C: What do you want to be when you grow up?
D: What did I want to be? A historian. What do I want to be? I think I'm pretty grown up but I'd say... not poor.
C: What three words would you use to describe your spectacles?
D: Supa Dupa Fly.
C: ‘My spectacles make me feel…’
D: OLD, my eyesight isn't what it was. I joke, they make me feel like a professional.
Explore Dalia's obsessions and objects and inquisitive spirit in her artwork, here.
Read about Mal's dreams and failed escapades and spectacles
