Category: Narrative Threads
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Narrative Threads Opening 14th November
My solo exhibition, Narrative Threads, opens on Saturday 14th November The National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford, Lincolnshire. This exhibition is the culmination of a year-long residency at NCCD, funded by Arts Council England. Please join me to celebrate the opening of the exhibition on Saturday 2-4pm with cheese and wine! It includes lots of…
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Narrative Threads Masterclass January 2016
Alongside my Narrative Threads exhibition at the National Centre for Craft & Design, I am running a weekend masterclass on 9th & 10th January 2016 (rescheduled from December). Spend the weekend immersed in creative, slow, experimental techniques inspired by my work. The workshops include simple, experimental natural dye techniques, embroidery and using found objects. You can create a…
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Narrative Threads Artist in Residence at NCCD
During my residency day at NCCD in April I tried some further experiments with recording dye processes using video, this time using my iPad set up on a plate stand, which seems to work quite well. There’s more to be done on this but it looks promising and I hope a film can be included in…
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Daily Make (15 & 16)
I reworked The Beauty of Stains, making the stains permanent through stitch. I’ve made a lot of paper pieced patchwork for Narrative Threads. I’ve started a birthday present for my mum but I’m not going to show it here in case she looks. I know she doesn’t look at Instagram. …
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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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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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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…
Ruth Singer 