Category: Projects
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Dr Isabella Rosner: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 55
Episode 55 is more of the summer of stitch series, this time with the brilliant Dr Isabella Rosner, Royal School of Needlework curator, podcaster and all round historic embroidery enthusiast. She has been part of the Mary Linwood fan club for years and we had a wonderful time talking about all the complexities of Linwood’s career…
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Textile Book Group
A social online group to talk about our favourite books about textiles. A few weeks ago I hosted my first online textile book group and it was a delight! We talked about Clare Hunter’s Threads of Life and shared our reflections on the book, what resonated with our own stories, what we learned and how…
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Mary Linwood events open for bookings
What’s coming up for the Mary Linwood exhibition from September 2025 to February 2026. Events start with free Social Stitch sessions in the gallery, where there are tables and stools alongside the Mary Linwoods. These take place monthly on Monday afternoons, the first is 22nd September which I hope to attend. The first ticketed event…
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Mary Linwood events
Save the dates for Mary Linwood related events in Leicester, September 2025 – January 2026. This is advance notice of in-person events related to Mary Linwood; Art, Stitch & Life at Leicester Museum & Art Gallery 13th September 2025 to 22nd February 2026. Entry to the exhibition is free. Some of the events are drop-in,…
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Moving The Needle
The under-appreciated originality of Mary Linwood (1755-1845) This essay is inspired by the prompt of Originality, posed by Beth Kempton on Substack for the Summer of Substack Essay Festival. You are welcome to subscribe to my substack but for now I intend to keep copying my writing over here on my website, so you could…
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The Generosity of Makers
A reflection on being a generous artist and being part of generous communities A second essay copied over from Substack, where I am taking part in a summer essay-writing challenge hosted by Beth Kempton. This week’s prompt was Generosity. This is not the writing I planned over the course of this week. This is not…
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Making Meaning Journals in print
Three issue of my booklets exploring my practice are now available I love writing Making Meaning Journal. It’s been a lovely thing to come out of my Cultures of Care project. The first was originally only digital but I have now printed a small number of copies along with issues 2 & 3 which were…
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Textile Book Group
A social online group to talk about our favourite books about textiles. First meeting Monday 4th August I love reading books about textiles and I love talking to people about books about textiles, so I have created a book group to do just that. It’s an online meeting, on the first Monday of every month.…
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Writing the stories of damage
An exploration into the details of my textile collecting This short essay was sparked by a writing challenge on Substack, set by Beth Kempton. It’s may first post there, and I am probably not going to change over to writing on Substack rather than on my own places – this website, my printed publications and…
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Artwork blossoming in the woods
I have two artworks in the Beacon Sculpture Trail until 17th September Blossom and Thorn, my textile homage to hedgerows, is on display in an old hedgerow in the country park’s sculpture trail. This work was made in 2023 with volunteer hedge-researchers exploring alongside the National Forest Way, a long distance footpath weaving through the…