Audrey Walker obituary

Subtle and sometimes unsettling textile artist who oversaw a globally respected degree course at GoldsmithsThe textile artist Audrey Walker, who has died aged 92, was renowned for embroideries built up from pointillist layers of thread – machine and hand-stitched. Her finest works, seen at a retrospective exhibition in 2000 at Ruthin Craft Centre in north Wales, were created after her retirement from teaching in the late 1980s.Psychologically unsettling figurative wall pieces, monumental i