Category: research
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Making Connections
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My own textile work alongside Mary Linwood’s In August, before the Mary Linwood exhibition opened, I took all the work I had made for the exhibition for a photo shoot in St Margaret’s Church, Leicester. This is the church where Mary Linwood is buried and it seemed like the perfect atmospheric location for me to…
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Rachel Whitworth of the Bowes Museum: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 59
In this episode I’m talking to Rachel Whitworth, the curator of Fashion and Textiles at The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle. I’ve been working with Rachel recently to bring several of their Mary Linwood pieces to my exhibition in Leicester, and previously visited them in the museum stores to study and understand them better. Rachel…
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Textile Book Group
A social online group to talk about our favourite books about textiles. We are a few months into Textile Book Group and working our way through a great book every month. I’ve decided to alternate long reads with shorter reads to give more time for the longer books. November’s session (Monday 3rd) is our short…
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Lost Threads: Mary Linwood’s Legacy
Exhibition catalogue by Ruth Singer is now available The gorgeous exhibition catalogue is now ready to order online! This is a lovely 60 page A5 booklet full of wonderful images of Mary Linwood’s embroidery and my own work photographed in the atmospheric St Margaret’s Church. This catalogue includes all the exhibition text and captions for…
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Rediscovering Mary Linwood
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A talk by Ruth Singer exploring the fascinating history of this great Leicester artist I could talk about Mary Linwood for hours but I am limiting myself to just one hour – and it will be one very special hour in the beautiful Leicester Guildhall, a building Mary Linwood must have known too. I”ll be…
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Installing the Mary Linwood exhibition
Behind the scenes of the final stages of the exhibition (which is now open!) The last couple of weeks have been frantic, finishing everything off for the Mary Linwood exhibition. I spent a week sewing up the last few things, framing and finishing my work, then packing it all in plastic bags to spend 3…
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Dr Heidi Strobel: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 56
Dr Heidi Strobel is my guest in episode 56 about Mary Linwood. Heidi joined me from The University of North Texas, USA where she is is Professor of Art History. She is also the author of Mary Linwood: Embroidery, Installation, and Entrepreneurship in Britain 1787-1845 which has been invaluable for my exhibition research. Heidi and…
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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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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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