Category: career
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Sew What? Podcast with Ruth Singer
I’m on Sew What? podcast talking about my work, museum, history and my enduring love for historic textiles.
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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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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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Great British Quilter Podcast
Ruth Singer interviewed for the Great British Quilter Podcast. December 2020
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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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Textiles in Lockdown Commission – ebook and podcast
A little bit of background about the making of Textiles in Lockdown
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New Edition of Criminal Quilts Book
Criminal Quilts is an arts & heritage project by Ruth Singer exploring the stories of women photographed in Stafford Prison 1877-1916. Buy the book direct from the author.
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Fifteen Years
This summer I marked (but not really celebrated) 15 years of running my own creative business. I was hoping to bring out a new book this year covering what I’ve done in those years but this year has of course not gone remotely according to plan! I should have it ready next year. In the…
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Creative Communities
Working on your own as a creative maker or artist is hard enough in normal times and it’s even more challenging this year, both financially and personally. Isolation and struggling alone is very real. It can be hard to connect with friends and make new ones when you aren’t doing exhibitions, shows, teaching or other…
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What it means to be an artist in 2020
At the end of May 2020 I was offered the chance to share my images and words via the Instagram account of Contemporary Visual Art Networks – East Midlands. I created a week’s worth of posts exploring my experience of being an artist in 2020, both before and during the time of Covid. I have…
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