Frankie Meaden has taken the time to develop her artistic voice. Her life has always been about creating, from having her work displayed in one of London’s prestigious Tate galleries when she was 18 years old, to making and selling colourful jewellery, Halloween costumes, handmade bags, denim embroidery pieces and everything in-between.
Now living in Auckland with her three young children and a springer spaniel, Frankie finds herself “squeezing in time to create giant, colourful, tactile embroidered artworks out of recycled materials in my home studio whenever they’re at school or sleeping”. Her pieces are vibrant acts of floral joy, creating movement out of swathes of texture that hang in