The artist Adriana Meunié creates pieces of outstanding beauty by using fabrics and raw materials she sources from the rough landscape around her home in Mallorca, that she shares with her partner, a cat, a dog and a goat
Adriana in her studio surrounded by virgin wool from her own sheep
When Adriana Meunié left the BAU Centro Universitario de Diseño in Barcelona after having studied fashion design, she realised that her professional future wouldn’t be in the fashion world. But she had fallen in love with textiles and started experimenting with different textures, volumes and shapes. Adriana started collecting the raw materials in her direct surroundings, in the wild nature of the island where she grew up and started to transform them into extraordinary beautiful artworks. She uses wool, raffia or esparto grass – raw materials that we usually know in modified forms – in their natural form. „Before giving these materials a practical use, I find them wonderful and I wish to share this feeling”, Adriana says. Her objects speak for themselves. She brings unprocessed wool – she even helps shearing the sheep herself – and blank canvases together and turns them into raw wallhangings or creates a cape out of natural linen and grass. Adriana also collects antique fabrics, called „fill mallorquí” that she sews together and transforms them into pieces that tell secrets of times longs since past.
For our format „My life in Objects” we asked Adriana about the six objects that shaped her life.
What is the first object you remember that meant something to you? What happened to it?
I think it would be a little turquoise box, printed with trees that my parents gave me to keep my falling teeth. I still have it with my tiny teeth inside.
What is your favorite object today?
I like old tools, I have different small sizes of hammers, some sheering scissors, I love really old rakes, but I think my favorite object is an old tool used in the fields to collect almonds that my dear partner Jaume transformed into a lamp (just adding a light bulb).
The best object you ever brought home as a souvenir
I really can't think about one! I usually like to buy food...
The last thing you bought and loved
A big antique bucket with a tap which we used all summer to clean the dished outside with the water well. Beautiful and useful, the best combination.
One object you would like to own but can’t find, afford, ….
I would love to acquire antique traditional garments from Japan or Africa, those made by hand with raw elements...
“I found the tapestry techniques, bounded to the very primary sense of textiles, as an incredible opportunity to create wild textures, volumes and shapes”
A textile collage made of „fill mallorquí”, antique fabrics
Adrianas studio in Felanitx