Category: Projects
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Criminal Quilts Case Study – Fanny and Ada Riddle
Criminal Quilts is my an exhibition, research project and book. The textiles I have created are inspired by the stories of women who were photographed on release from Stafford Prison between 1877 and 1916. I was fascinated when I first saw the photographs from the 1870s where the women have their hands on their chests.…
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Interview with CVAN East Midlands
There’s an interview with me (done at the end of April) up on the CVAN East Midlands website. I’ll be taking over CVAN EM Instagram from 25th May too, sharing my thoughts on what it is to be an artist in 2020. I’m doing a live Zoom interview with Elizabeth Hawley-Lingham, Director of CVAN-EM on…
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Visit Criminal Quilts (online)
While my Criminal Quilts exhibition is behind bars (in boxes), I have created a free online version of the exhibition. I’ve included lots of high resolution images including details of embroidery, quilting and showing textures and stitches as much as possible. All the exhibition panels, labels and other resources are also on my website for…
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Step By Step
One day at a time Not too long ago I had a wall planner diary for the whole year, I was waiting to hear about a 12-month project so I could fully schedule in my 12-18 month work plan around my holidays, teaching away from home, deadlines and exhibition touring schedule. I always have teaching…
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Creating Community
I’m always being asked what inspires me, where I get my ideas from, how those ideas go from thoughts to textiles, how I create exhibitions, what my next project will be and so much more… With this in mind, I have come up with a behind-the-scenes mini magazine where you will be able to find out…
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Hand stitched textiles – creating cloth with meaning
I am hosting a new three-day course at the lovely West Dean College, this June, one of only three workshops I am running this year. This art textiles course aims to be a relaxed and enjoyable adventure into creative textiles following the studio practice of textile artist Ruth Singer. Over the course of three days…
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Artist Development Work
Today I went to the launch of Leicester City Council’s cultural prospectus and strategy. It turns out that this wasn’t the launch of the actual strategy, it was the launch of the work to consult leading towards the strategy, which actually is good as there’s still chance to input in to the decision-making for how…
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LSA Exhibition Prize
I have three pieces in the Leicester Society of Artists Annual Exhibition at New Walk Museum, Leicester, until 7th December 2019. I’ve also been awarded a prize for one of these pieces, Pierced. The Artist Magazine sponsored this prize which was selected by independent judges: Elizabeth Hawley-Lingham – Director, East Midlands Contemporary Visual Arts Network…
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Trapunto Quilting Research
My love of corded and stuffed quilting runs very deep. I first taught myself the technique about 15 years ago after seeing it used in 1930s couture garments at the V&A when I worked there. I later discovered the Tristan Quilt, a 14th century trapunto quilt, which is in the V&A but it wasn’t on…
Ruth Singer 