Author: Ruth Singer
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Find out more about Maker Membership
Is Maker Membership right for you? Listen to members to learn more Are you interested in possibly joining Maker Membership? I realise it’s hard to know if its right for you or not. I’m sharing some different ways you can discover more about what it’s like and see if it ‘s something you would benefit…
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Textile Traces Workshop
Over the weekend I ran my first in-person workshop in my garden studio! It’s was a bit of a squeeze with the exhibition on at the same time and lots of materials but we had a great time. The workshop was a chance to try some of the techniques I used for recording family textiles…
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Lines and Places
Landscape history and artist practice After a hedge-hiatus early this year for my Blossom & Thorn project, I’m back to my previous landscape project. I’m slowly walking all of the paths in a 10 square mile-ish area near my home and looking for interesting things like old boundaries, ancient woodlands, good hedges, ridge and furrow…
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Cultures of Care online talk & workshop
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I’ve had such a lot of interest over the last couple of months about my new Cultures of Care project – it’s been really heartwarming to hear from people about how this subject resonates. There’s a lot going on with the project already including a community project artist residency, supported spaces in my Maker Membership…
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Textile Traces workshop
Record and catalogue antique textiles, tell family stories and create artwork that does not damage the precious textiles. In-person and online workshops with Ruth Singer When I created my work Imprint, I knew I wanted to share what I learned from the process. Imprint is an artwork archive recording details and stories about a family…
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Community artist residency
On Monday I joined Peace of Green‘s Wellness in Nature group at Belgrave Hall gardens in Leicester. I’m artist in residence with the group over the next year as part of my Cultures of Care project. Once a month I’ll spend a few hours with the group, observing and chatting to people, running activities and…
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Hearing artists’ voices
Recently I was asked to talk very briefly to a conference about why is it important for artists / creatives to be involved in developing plans for cultural activity and what impact could this have. I have a lot to say about this and could happily have talked for hours but I was limited to…
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Gathering : Material Evidence
My Material Evidence exhibition in my garden studio is suddenly next week! I’ve just had a delivery of wonderful work by Kathryn Parsons which will go alongside some of my recent work. The exhibition starts on 2nd August and continues until 20th August on a handful of dates only. My part of the exhibition includes…
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Material Evidence Exhibition & Events
I’m putting on a small exhibition in my garden studio in Loughborough 2-20 August. As well as some of my own recent work, I’ve invited Kathryn Parsons to show some of her work as well. We have a small events programme alongside, details of these are below. Material evidence is an intimate exhibition of recent…
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Narrative in textile practice
I look for the stories, the challenging subjects, the social justice, the personal and emotional research in creative practice all the time and am delighted when I find it. I recently visited the textile degree show at my local university, Loughborough, to see what the graduates have to say about why they are making what…