“I never studied embroidery formally,” says Malaysian-born artist Sheena Liam, who creates female portraits in dark thread, with strands used to represent hair escaping in locks and plaits from the canvas. Liam is also a successful model – she won Asia’s Next Top Model in 2014 – and says that she embroiders to unwind. “I find stitching almost meditative.”

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