Unique artwork. Mixed textiles on board. Nora Gres sews pictures. "Textile artworks" is what the studied designer calls the elaborate fabric collages. With her plastic illustrations, city portraits or runway outfits, the Munich-based designer has created a very special artistic discipline.

Textile city portraits and city maps are also part of her repertoire, along with illustrations and art objects such as a portable tent. "In 2002 I created textile illustrations for a women's magazine for the first time. And then just carried on," she says. Until then, Gres, who studied communication, illustration and fashion design at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg, developed fashion and women's magazines as an art director, worked as a costume assistant and stylist for theatre, advertising film and photo productions in Germany and abroad, also for well-known advertising agencies. "Even as a child I was fascinated by materials and colour sounds. Sewing gives me the freedom to do what I want and to pursue my ideas," says Gres. The artist is among the most searched artists on google like Jock Sturges, David Hamilton, Diane Arbus, Sally Mann, Banksy, Annie Leibovitz, Andy Goldsworthy, KAWS, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Conrad Jon Godly, Irina Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, Francesca Woodman, Keith Haring, Takashi Murakami, Victor Vasarely, Felix Pierre Richard, Gerhard Richter, Helmut Newton, Cindy Sherman, Tracey Emin, Barbara Kruger, Salvador Dalí, Benedicto Cabrera, Marc Chagall, Yayoi Kusama, David Hockney, Shepard Fairey, Fernando Botero, Jules Pascin, Gregory Crewdson, Wolfgang Tillmans and Pierre Soulages.
She gets inspiration by Pop Artists like Andy Warhol, or other Fashion Photographers like Helmut Newton.