The line between craft and art is sometimes blurred, especially when it comes to traditional crafts, but this textile work by Ed Bing Lee is undoubtedly ART. Starting as a commercial fabric designer in New York and Philadelphia, he works with coloured thread and thousands upon thousands of knots. Lee was inspired by the master pointillism George Seurat. Rather than emulating the great master, he has taken his work and reinvented it: “I continually return to art history for visual and conceptual stimulation. For me, it is the perfect jumping off point for work in a technique that knows no boundaries.”

Pointillism- is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of colour are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism.