The Bahamian artist stitches self portraits, leaves the threads, and flips the canvas in a new show in Harlem: 'We all unravel sometimes.'
It wasn’t until college that Swaby figured out she wanted to pursue art. She was a creative kid, dressing herself in eclectic outfits from a young age. Growing up in the Bahamas, she didn’t know any artists, nor did her family spend much time at art galleries or museums.
But while attending the College of the Bahamas, she took one fateful art class, an elective on color theory. “It just made so much sense to me. I started to understand: This is where I should be.” Though she had learned to sew from her seamstress mother at a young age, Swaby didn’t see it as an art form, instead choosing to work in painting and ceramics at first. That changed when she learned from the quilter Jan Elliott while at an artists residency.
The fabrics she chooses to animate her exuberant outfits—flouncy dresses, overalls, platform sandals with charms hanging off the heels—are stunning works of art in their own right. In one of the pieces at Claire Oliver,a recumbent Swaby is wearing her favorite shoes: Crocs. They’re stitched with a hummingbird fabric, an homage to her beloved father based on a story her uncle told her after her dad passed.
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