Category: Projects
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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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Foodbank stories in textile
Textiles and social justice work combine in a new body of work using data from a volunteer-run emergency foodbank in Leicester. A new piece of work: 1292 Foodbank Visits in 18 Weeks, Ruth Singer, 2020. Hand stitch on cotton. One thousand, two hundred and ninety two people supported by the emergency food bank my co-volunteers…
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Great British Quilter Podcast
Ruth Singer interviewed for the Great British Quilter Podcast. December 2020
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Postable Presents
Postable and digital gifts from Ruth Singer ; books, workshops, artworks, prints and gift cards
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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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Criminal Quilts and food poverty
New case studies about women criminals and fundraising for Leicester’s new foodbank
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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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