Biography
Diana Harrison (b. UK) studied at Goldsmiths' under Constance Hawker and then at the Royal College of Art. She teaches at the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham. Harrison developed her technique of masking out areas of fabric before spraying them with dye – one of her dresses featured in Vogue. She continued this at Studio 401½, where she made lots of upholstery fabric. After experimenting with flicking and splattering dyes she moved on to dyeing fabric black and then discharging it and stitching, which brought her fame in the quilting world – her work has been bought by museums in Japan and the US, as well as the Contemporary Art Society donating a wallhanging, Squares (1978,) to Brighton Museum and Art Gallery in 1983.
