Category: My work
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Narrative Threads Artist in Residence
March was a time for reflection, thinking and planning. I’m working, slowly, on new pieces. I’m revisiting older work and pulling ideas together. Ideas for new work are sloshing around and beginning to settle. A few days holiday at the end of the month gave me vital thinking time, sitting on the front of a…
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Interlace
This weekend sees the launch of an exciting new project which I have been working on for over a year. Bethany Walker and I have created Interlace, a collaboration of cloth and concrete. Our showcase exhibition opens on Saturday 21st March upstairs at Bilston Craft Gallery and runs until 19th April. The exhibition includes two…
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Leicester Open 26 Exhibition
Two of my Criminal Quilts will be part of the Leicester Open 26 exhibition 2015 and will be displayed in Newarke Houses Museum, Leicester from 14 March – 14 May 2015.
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Textiles Open exhibition at Solihull
I’m exhibiting two pieces in the Pattern & Place Textiles Open exhibition in Solihull Gallery, including Monumental Folly which they have used on the advert and my new piece Star Quilt, straight from the Ornamentum exhibition. The exhibition opens on Thurs 26th Feb with an evening preview from 6.15pm and continues until 28th March.
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Textile Memories
My forthcoming exhibition Narrative Threads explores physical and emotional engagement with cloth, exploring tactility, memory and personal stories, mostly around old domestic textiles. I’m interested in looking at how we feel about old fabrics; tablecloths with stains and dusters with holes and how the role of the artist changes a piece of fabric from something ordinary to…
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On My Mother’s Knee Exhibition in Bangor
I’m very pleased to say that the fantastic exhibition On My Mother’s Knee, created by Llantarnam Grange Art Centre, is moving to Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor, 17th January to 28th February. This exhibition features work from my series’ Tool Shed and Time Bubble. I’m delighted to have my work alongside brilliant makers…
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Interlace on show in Craft and Conflict at Bilston Craft Gallery
Work by Interlace is on show in Craft and Conflict at Bilston Craft Gallery until 22nd November 2014. We created work specifically for this show, using white petals instead of our usual colours. By creating fragile textile forms fixed into concrete, we explore making the ephemeral permanent and preserving memories set in stone. The…
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What’s in Your Shed? Exhibition at Snibston
This week I finally got to see my work Tool Shed on exhibition at Snibston, a museum a few miles away from me. Apparently this work inspired the whole exhibition project, which is really nice to know. My work is exhibited in a purpose-built shed, inside the giant museum shed-style building. It’s great that my dad was…
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Travelling Tool Shed
Today would have been my Grandad’s 98th birthday. My work, Tool Shed, inspired by his collection of tools, is heading off for a new exhibition later this month. What’s in Your Shed opens at Snibston, Coalville, Leicestershire 26th July – 26th September 2014 curated and conceived by Transform, an arts project working to create artistic interventions…
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Petal Dye
Dyeing fabric with petals (and some leaves) has to be one of the easiest and most satisfying way of putting natural colour onto cloth. It is ridiculously simple & effective, particularly on silk. I first tried it last year, after reading about it online, seeing what Hannah Lamb was doing with plant bundle (and in India…
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