Zoeli Winters

Zoeli Winters is a Dutch/English artist based in London. Her practice revolves around creating her own immersive and vibrant worlds. By using mythological motifs and playful imagery, she creates a sense of ‘safe space,’ where more intimate and personal themes can be held and explored.

For Zoeli, creating is a form of processing emotions and memories, and ultimately, a way of stitching herself back together. The relationality of the human experience lies central to her work, explored in her compositions depicting themes of sexuality, friendship and family. The physical act of making is itself a meditation, the entire creative process becoming a way to confront contextualise both past and present.

Working mostly with textiles, glass and ceramic, Zoeli often finds herself returning to tapestry. With it’s long tradition in storytelling and it’s place in the domestic realm, the medium of tapestry gives her work a softness and tenderness that reflects its themes. Her choice of materials reflects her ongoing interest in the boundary between craft and fine art, as well as her identity in the world as a woman and an artist.

Rooted in her early years growing up in rural Michigan, her work exists in the plane between the natural world and the human experience. Animals as vessels for human characteristics, nature, ritual and the wild woman architype are recurring themes. Her work speaks of a longing for reconnection with the land, with instinct and for the wild child to become the wild woman.