heather sheehan

heather sheehan

  • hello
  • artist statement
  • intro
  • selected works
  • current works
    • visual-verbal works
      • Sylta, the Whaling Widow Who Wails
      • One Woman, One Stone
      • Sharpless, Margaret
      • burlap poem video
      • 2021 box edition
      • live readings
      • installed texts
    • b & w photography
      • monograph
      • Self Portrait with Ear to Future & Past
      • In Muddier Years
      • Island- Burying the Dead
      • Washday on the River
      • Farm
      • Institutional
    • video + performance
    • textile installation + object
    • stitched drawings
    • on paper
  • earlier works
    • intro text
    • textile installation + object
    • on paper
    • photography
    • video + performance
  • about
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    • interview texts
    • wikipedia english
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'friends, the tall and the small' installation view in the former synagogue, 2012
Kunstverein Oerlinghausen, Germany
photo: Maren Radke
The needle-sculpted textile objects made between 2004 and 2011, range from 5 inches to 10 feet tall. The strange presence yet familiarity of these ‘beings’, regardless of size, age or beauty, allow viewers to explore their individual capacity for empathy.


Copyright Heather Sheehan, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Authors and Photographers.