Alongside the jewellery collections of ST ERASMUS, Pieter Erasmus develops a body of wall-based textile works that extend his material language beyond the scale of the body and into space.

Thread is used as a form of mark-making. Surfaces are built slowly, through repetition and accumulation. What reads as gesture from a distance reveals itself, on closer viewing, as density — thousands of small movements held in tension across cloth.

The practice moves between autonomous abstraction and material translation. Images are slowed down and rebuilt in thread; painted and printed marks are absorbed into textile and returned as weight, texture, and surface. What may begin as colour or line becomes something quieter and more tactile, shaped by labour, rhythm, and resistance.

Produced in the artist’s studio in New Delhi in collaboration with skilled embroiderers, each work develops through sustained hand processes where time is visible and pressure is felt. The surface thickens. Light catches on thread. The image settles into the room.

Since 2023, Erasmus has developed multiple embroidered wall works — from gestural abstractions to dialogic and commissioned projects — establishing embroidery as an ongoing and evolving practice documented in the artist’s portfolio.

While jewellery rests against the body, these works inhabit architecture. They hold colour, atmosphere, and physical presence within a space.

All works are signed and archived under the artist’s name.

Available by enquiry.