Imogen Bright Moon (b. Wolverhampton, 1983) is a British Romani writer and artist in Craft, exploring the raw materials of yarn-spinning, cloth-making and tapestry-weaving from a materials-led studio practice.
Imogen’s woven works explore elements of dimensionality in the drape and surface, speaking to her formal training in couture pattern cutting. Structure and form is important, as is textural depth, and grading of shadow, tone and light.
After an extended research and development period studying metallurgy approaches to form and surface - specifically free-form pewter casting (ACE DYCP, 2023) - Imogen has integrated her findings into applied processes for her textile works, whereby the more subtle structures within fibres can be encouraged into new spaces within textile arts by the use of rhythmic principles found in uniting with other craft disciples. This body of work also finds context within her extensive studies of Jung and Alchemy, further supported by an earlier Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Therapy (integrative, practical, non-clinical, IATE, 2011).
Imogen’s work is concerned with the relationships and states of creative openness between the personal worlds of the Mythic Domestic; Nature’s imminence in the mediumship of Craft (as an arts discipline), and the power of mother-artist storytelling in contemporary art.
"I have created a narrative in textile language in which it is the material speaking.”
Published works (selection);
The Wheel - Weaving the Feminine Archetypes, Tended Hearth, 2025
Wild Yarn - Creating hand-spun yarn from ethical fibres, Batsford, 2024
The Selkie: Weaving & The Wild Feminine, Magpie, 2018
Portrait by Grace Gelder, 2022