Category: Art Textiles
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Narrative Threads residency day 1
A few days ago I finally had my first Narrative Threads residency day at The National Centre for Craft & Design after January’s went awry with snow and illness. It is such a rare treat to spend a whole day focussed on just one project and a day just making my own work is still…
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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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Cyanotype workshop with Hannah Lamb
I’m never quite sure if a day spent at a creative workshop counts as a day off or as work, when it is both enjoyable and professional development. Either way, I don’t do it enough and always resolve to do it more. A couple of weeks ago I spent a day experimenting with cyanotype under the guidance of…
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Show Season!
I’ve barely unpacked all the goodies I bought at the Festival of Quilts (last month) and apparently it is almost time for the Knitting & Stitching Show** – with the local Big Textile Show* in between. Festival of Quilts at the NEC Birmingham is always a favourite of mine – it is an hour away so…
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Postcard from Chateau Dumas 1
I’m not long back from a glorious week teaching at Chateau Dumas. It is as wonderful as it looks. I’ve never had such a luxurious teaching experience! The Art of Textiles course covered masses of creative techniques over the course of 6 days and we started with my experimental and freestyle approach to natural dyes.…
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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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Exhibitions at the Knitting & Stitching Show
I fully intended to write a blog post praising a number of exhibitions at the Knitting & Stitching Show, and urging those in striking distance of London to GET THERE TODAY (and/ or tomorrow) and illustrate the blog with marvellous pictures of the work, gathered from the websites of the organisers of the shows, or…
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Studio; Inspiration board and on the sewing table
I’ve started on a new body of work, so I gave my little workspace a spruce up and created a new inspiration board. My desk isn’t very big so I have filled up the whole space with lovely things and left myself a tiny gap to work in. More photos on Flickr.