Author: Ruth Singer
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Reflecting on Reflective Writing
New versions of my Reflective Writing for Creative Practice are available now Course 1 – Creative Practice wide explorations for any creative person Course 2 is focussed around making and artist practice, ideal for artists and as a follow-on from course 1. I’ve created two version of the course now – the original (Course 1)…
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A reflection on Patch Work, a book by Claire Wilcox
A few weeks ago, on a Sunday afternoon, I came out of the Antique Textile Fair tired but still craving more textiles, somehow. I was replete with looking at, touching and indeed buying lovely things, and my brain was buzzing with the ideas that always flow when I’m surrounding by inspiring cloth. And I had…
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Mapping our personal histories
Places & Traces project has moved indoors after a summer of walks and wild workshops. We are now looking at maps and documents to plan our own tactile map of emotional histories of Charnwood Forest. The final two meetings of this year are in Loughborough library where we are looking at historical maps and talking…
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Exhibition: For Your Convenience
For Your Convenience : Exploring Convenience Culture through an Artistic Lens. 27th November – 13th December 2024. Norman Rea Gallery University of York I’m pleased to be showing a new piece in this exhibition. Make Gardens Green Again was part of my Land Shapes exhibition in my garden studio earlier this year. It is part…
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Mary Linwood and Me: Making Meaning podcast Episode 45
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This short episode is a brief introduction to my research project about 18th century embroidery artist Mary Linwood. The episode includes a very short history about her, and then details of the community projects I’m running over the next few months, that you can take part in too.
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Places and Traces of the Landscape
My Charnwood local history and landscape project moves indoors this month In October we had the last of the walks and wild workshops outside for Places & Traces. We took a short ramble along the bridleway, the old road, on the very edge of Loughborough. It’s one of my favourite places to walk and it…
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Stitching Emotions: call for contributions
Stitching Emotions is a new contributory project to make a piece for a large fabric book to be exhibited in my exhibition ‘Mary Linwood: Art, Stitch & Life’ in Sept 2025. We don’t know Mary Linwood’s feelings about her embroidery practice but she must have loved stitching. Women’s experiences in history are rarely recorded and…
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Stitching Emotions
Contribute to a collective textile book exploring the way we feel when we stitch. This will be part of my Mary Linwood exhibition in 2025. We don’t know Mary Linwood’s feelings about her embroidery practice but she must have loved stitching. Women’s experiences in history are rarely recorded and we have very little written evidence…
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Connected Threads community textile project
The first event in the Mary Linwood project took place at The Big Textile Show in Leicester last weekend. Remembering Mary Linwoodand generations of unknown stitchers A community textile project in celebration of Mary Linwood,Leicester’s forgotten 18th century embroidery celebrity! – In these workshops we are using wool threads to make cords toconstruct into a…
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Mary Linwood and Me
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Behind the scenes for the last couple of years, I’ve been trying to make an exciting project happen. I’ve wanted to share the story of embroiderer Mary Linwood for even longer than that. I’m finally making it happen. Over the next year I am putting together an exhibition of Mary Linwood’s embroidery from Leicester Museums…
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