Category: Art Textiles
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Textile Traces exhibition launch & workshops
My new solo exhibition, Textile Traces, opens on 25th May at Llantarnam Grange Art Centre, Cwmbran, Wales. The opening event includes an ‘In Conversation’ event with me and Polly Leonard, founder and editor of Selvedge magazine. This event is free and takes place 12-2pm on Saturday 25th May. The exhibition continues until 20th July 2019.…
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Fine Art Quilt Masters 2018
I’m pleased to have had another piece accepted into the Fine Art Quilt Masters at Festival of Quilts again this year. Tracery will be shown in a large gallery with a lot of other really exciting textile pieces, 9-12th August. I will also be exhibiting my Criminal Quilts project in a gallery of its own…
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Exploring quilt history
As I develop new work for my Fragments exhibition in the summer, I am investigating and exploring a lot of old quilts. I am continuing to explore my photographs and notes from the research visit to the Quilt Association’s collections in February and creating new technique ideas based on the structures, designs and history of…
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Criminal Quilts 2017
My Criminal Quilts series originally commissioned by Shire Hall Gallery is probably my best known work including the 2016 Fine Art Quilt Masters winner. This winning piece will be exhibited in the Minerva Arts Centre this summer and the patchwork piece will be at Unit Twelve from the end of April. I’m really excited to be starting…
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Fragments – Researching a new series of work
Small fragments of cloth combined to make a greater whole. Each stitch, each thread, each moment of the maker contribute to a broad canvas of narrative. I have been invited by the Quilt Association to showcase some work in their summer show and chose to spend time developing new work inspired by their collections. Fragments…
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Surface Pattern exhibition at Unit Twelve
I’m exhibiting my Criminal Quilts: Patchwork in Unit Twelve’s (Surface) Pattern exhibition from 27th April – 26th August.
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Little Selves exhibition
Little Selves is an exhibition celebrating the portrait miniature showcasing exquisite pieces from the collections at New Walk Museum Leicester alongside new work by Leicester Society of Artists members and a schools competition. The exhibition takes place 25 March – 25 June 2017. Although I am no portraitist, I was intrigued by the potential it gave me…
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Threads Open Textiles exhibition at Salisbury Arts Centre
Two pieces from my Narrative Threads exhibition, Criminal Quilts Patchwork and Memorial Pincushions Project, are being shown in Threads Contemporary Textiles Open in Salisbury Arts Centre 1st October – 12th November 2016.
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Leicester Society of Artists
Earlier this year I was accepted as a member of Leicester Society of Artists and I’m pleased to be showing work in their 2016 exhibition at New Walk Museum, Leicester, 4th November – 3rd December. I’ll be showing two of my Garment Ghosts; suspended transparent pieces made from fragmentary antique clothing. For an invite to…
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Exploring DNA 2
After a bit of a hiatus over the summer, Gillian and I have restarted our DNA project and spent the morning working at Leicester Print Workshop making prints using found objects. We will be exhibiting work in progress at the TedX Leicester event on 26th October.
Ruth Singer 