Cathy Jane Brickhill is a New Zealand artist working in 3D sculpted thread artworks — layered, three-dimensional thread forms built from hand-stitching and machine embroidery, inspired by Aotearoa’s flora and fauna. Her work draws on a lifelong habit of close observation: bush walks, bird watching, and collecting natural objects, particularly the small, imperfect details of the New Zealand landscape — a weathered leaf, a deteriorating fungus, the curl of a drying fern frond.

Cathy Jane Brickhill trained originally in fashion design and has spent decades developing the techniques behind the work, including crochet, French Tambour beadwork, and wire sculpting alongside hand and machine embroidery. Each piece begins as a sketch and is built up in thread into a fully three-dimensional sculpture, then presented in a museum-grade glass frame or perspex box. Every piece is a handmade, one-off design — no two are ever identical.

Her work has received People’s Choice and Gold awards at major New Zealand art shows through 2024–2026, and she is represented internationally by Cube Gallery, London, with her work placed at art fairs in New York, Boston, and Miami.