Author: Ruth Singer
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Textiles & Sustainability
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about the sustainability or otherwise of my own artist practice. I’ve been using Melody Vaughan’s sustainability audit to look at my working practices and think about things I could change. I’ve been very consciously working towards a sustainable practice throughout my nearly 16 years of making.…
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Gentle Goal Setting for Myself – Part Two
Last week I shared my process of reviewing my year and then developing the Gentle Goal Setting Workshop alongside it. This week I’m sharing the goals I have come up with following my review, and a little more about how I got there. Leading up to writing the workbook, I had done quite a a…
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Gentle Goal Setting For Myself – part one
What I have learned from a wholistic creative practice review Late last year I started playing around in my journal with reviewing my year to date. I have read so much about reviewing and explored plenty of thoughtful analysis monthly, quarterly and annually, but never had it seemed so important as in 2020, the year…
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Remembering Rosie
Everything I do at the moment seems to be a bittersweet reminder of my lovely friend Rosie who died a couple of weeks ago. For the last 10 years she’s been so involved in my work, coming to workshops, buying and commissioning textile pieces, sharing stories of antique shopping and cats! I think of her…
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Precious Objects Sampler Workshop
Find a purpose for all those tiny treasures and special fabrics you love to collect. Make a Precious Objects Sampler in this weekend online workshop with textile artist Ruth Singer
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Textiles In Lockdown Online Talk
Join Ruth Singer to hear more about the textiles in lockdown project with Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Monday 18th January. Textiles in Lockdown was a commission from Gawthorpe Textiles Collection to gather stories about textile making during the first UK lockdown in March-June 2020. I worked with them over the late summer to collect stories from…
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Foodbank stories in textile
Textiles and social justice work combine in a new body of work using data from a volunteer-run emergency foodbank in Leicester. A new piece of work: 1292 Foodbank Visits in 18 Weeks, Ruth Singer, 2020. Hand stitch on cotton. One thousand, two hundred and ninety two people supported by the emergency food bank my co-volunteers…
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Great British Quilter Podcast
Ruth Singer interviewed for the Great British Quilter Podcast. December 2020
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Postable Presents
Postable and digital gifts from Ruth Singer ; books, workshops, artworks, prints and gift cards
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Gentle Goal Setting
Gentle Goal Setting is a workshop allowing you to look back at what you have learned from 2021 and set some realistic and gentle goals for 2021.
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