"A Craftwork Revolutionary" Grant Gibson, Editor, Crafts Magazine.

Nadia-Anne Ricketts, Founder, Sound Alchemist and Woven Artist, BeatWoven.

“In the year 2000, after completing my three year diploma in performing arts at the London Studio Centre, I set out to explore the world working as a professional dancer. Travelling through the tribal sounds of South America and Western Africa, witnessing Buddhist chants in the temples of South East Asia, to singing mantra’s in India and performing in the super clubs on the magical island of Ibiza, I found myself immersed in the stimulants of the senses from sound, colour, texture and pattern.

Sound was at the core of every culture, resonating positively with mind, body and soul. It was the very fabric that weaves our communities together through human emotional experience. Along with pattern, I began to see music as a universal language, with the power to ignite, connect and elevate our energetic spectrum.

By complete synchronicity shortly after my return in 2007 - with my soul vibrating like a beacon - I discovered the art of weaving whilst studying at Central Saint Martins. Immediately I began to see mathematical similarities between the spectrum of sound and the framework of the grid like thread structure upon a weaving loom, that underpins pattern formation to weave fabric. My experience of sound was transforming into a decorative tangible medium. One that would reveal unseen kaleidoscopic, sonic geometries that could embody our physical realities around the globe, freeing us to resonate, elevate and root, our audio human experiences into our visual surroundings.

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration” Nikola Tesla.

In 2008 at the very tip of the amazing technological era I found myself collaborating with coders and music producers to invent digital tools to help manifest a woven audio fusion into new realms, poised at the intersection of Art, Sound, Design, and Craft. Since then I have found myself on an incredible explorative journey creating visual, tactile, woven artworks from music and sound as wall art, or as fabrics for special interior applications such as wall panelling.

In 2019, I qualifying as a certified sound healer and yoga instructor. I have since started to create sound meditation workshops to help create immersive experiences that help people dance between the space of the ethereal and the tangible, which in turn, communicates the power of sound-waves within our well-being. They also help us cross the threshold into the infinite space of creativity, which we can download to manifest positive outcomes in our everyday lives. With my work of fusing sound, pattern, colour, and texture, I would like to help disrupt conventional boundaries, stretch our perspectives, and open our minds to a new awareness that extends beyond our immediate surroundings”.

"One of THE names in British craft " Craft critic and journalist Corinne Julius.