Mary Little born in Northern Ireland，is a sculptor who makes forms with cloth through tailoring and sewing. Moved to the United States in 2001 to take up a teaching position at California College the Arts (CCA), San Francisco. Trained as a furniture designer at London’s Royal College of Art, she has always approached her work as sculpture.

For most artists, the canvas plays the supporting role, the base on which their artistic vision springs to life. But for California artist Mary Little, it is the very heart of her work. Mary Little work explores the interaction between light, surface, and gravity. Drawn to its unique sculptural properties, weight, and proportion, Little fashions striking tapestries of tucks, folds, and curls that capture the imagination.

Mary Little works are also interconnected. Ideas worked through in one piece are often the basis for a next one. Each work breeds a new one. There is an ever-present sensibility of landscape, the Irish countryside, to be exact. The Irish landscape of my childhood is innate within Mary Little, but she works are not inspired by or representations of landscape. The material is Mary Little focus and my inspiration.