Category: research
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Fragments of a whole
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What we lose when we cut things up As I prepare for my annual visit to the Antique Textiles Fair next week, I look back to a visit a couple of years ago and reflect on what I found, and what was missing. I crawled out of bed horribly early, in the dark, to get…
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Accomplishments and Imagined Mementoes: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 61
This week’s episode is about the new body of work I made for Mary Linwood; Art, Stitch & Life exhibition. Alongside researching, curating and writing the first exhibition of Mary Linwood’s work in 75 year, I also created seven new artworks reflecting elements of Mary Linwood’s life and legacy. These pieces fill in gaps in…
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How to recognise a Mary Linwood embroidery
Attributions and confusions, Mary Linwood’s Lost Legacy During my research into Mary Linwood, I came across plenty of embroideries that had been attributed to her in the past. There are also some in museums that I am not convinced are actually by Mary Linwood and some that have been auctioned in recent years that look…
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Reflections on Mary Linwood: Making Meaning Podcast Episode 60
Making Meaning is back with a new series. It’s almost five years since I started making this podcast and this is series 6. In this episode I’m solo, talking about what I’ve learned from the Mary Linwood Rediscovered project, from studying Mary Linwood and from sharing her story with the world. There are images of…
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Museum Visits
Close-up with Mary Linwood in museum collections Visiting museum stores to see historic textiles close up is my idea of textile heaven. During the development of Mary Linwood; Art, Stitch & Life exhibition, I got to visit Leicester Museum stores a few times, the Bowes Museum and the V&A Storehouse. I also saw a couple…
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Embroidered Herstories: Rediscovering Mary Linwood
A new online course packed with information about the life and legacy of the great Mary Linwood. I’ve created this to share some of the masses of research I did for the exhibition, Mary Linwood: Art, Stitch & Life. There’s a free introduction talk coming up and the full course
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The Victorian Hand Workshops
Take part in these exciting research and making sessions exploring hand work with the Quilters Guild collection in York I’m really looking forward to these workshops, which are part of my project artist work for the Victorian Hand. In these sessions we’ll look at hand-stitched quilts and work on elements of a tactile textile sculptural…
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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…