Harriet Riddell (born 1990) is a performance textile artist and educator from Oxfordshire who uses freeform embroidery to create stitched portraits and live scenarios.^[1] Often stitching in challenging locations such as public markets, slums and fields, she has used solar energy, bicycle-powered batteries, and foot pedals to power her sewing machine.^[2] Riddell has exhibited her work around the world including in London,^[3] Delhi, Nairobi and Toronto.^[4]

Riddell initially learned to use a sewing machine as a young child from her mother.^[5] Riddell's grandmother, a Canadian textile artist,^[6] taught her freeform embroidery when Riddell was ten years old.^[5]