Izziyana Suhaimi

Izziyana’s work explores the evidence of the hand and of time. Working primarily with embroidery, she is attracted to the medium’s simplicity and its roots in history – both personally and globally. Each stitch is like an echo of the last and a connection to a much larger tradition.

She enjoys the duality of embroidery, in its movements of stabbing, cutting, covering, building, repairing, taking apart. Every stitch made seems to unfold a story and withhold it at the same time. Embroidery for the artist is a quiet and still act. A stitch represents a moment passed. The building of stitches then becomes a representation of time that has gone. She has been featured in magazines such as IdN, CATALOG, Nylon Singapore and online such as Juxtapoz Magazine and Frankie Magazine. Her works have been exhibited in Singapore, the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan.