Category: Textile History
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Red clay and faded madder
Following the day’s colour prompt, I looked for a summer orange but what I found was an autumn russet, terracotta, brick. Had it been a sunny day, I might have thought of Tuscan roof tiles, glowing at sunset, but on an overcast, post-heatwave day when everything seems faded, it’s brick I see. Good, solid English…
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Material Histories, Showing and Sharing Textiles: Making Meaning Episode 66
This episode is the second of the occasional mini series Material Histories with Deb McGuire. In this one we have a wonderful wide-ranging conversation starting with what we look for in quilt shows but covers far more than that. We talk about the power of connecting through making, about showing and sharing textile works and…
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Where Do I Get My Ideas From? Making Meaning Episode 64
I have been asked about my ideas and where they come from more than anything else in my 21 year career (although “How long did it take to make?” must be a close second). It’s really hard for me to define where each idea came from but I’ve given it a go in this podcast.…
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Introducing Material Histories with Deb McGuire. Making Meaning Episode 63
Material Histories is a new mini-series of Making Meaning Podcast with special guest co-host Deb McGuire. Deb is a brilliant historian, specialising in emotional histories of quilting, but she’s incredibly knowledgable about all kinds of things. We have so many overlapping interests and things we really want to talk about in the world of textile…
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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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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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Final Week of Mary Linwood Exhibition
Plus Meet the Artist this weekend! and free postage for exhibition catalogues this week too I’m so sad that the exhibition is finally coming to an end – it’s been a wonderful few months seeing Mary Linwood’s work alongside my own. The exhibition closes on Sunday 22nd February. It’s open every day weekdays 11-4.30 and…
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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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Reflecting on Stitch Weekend
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A wonderful vibrant event celebrating Mary Linwood and all of us that love to stitch Last weekend I hosted a joyful event at Leicester Guildhall in celebration of Mary Linwood and all things stitch. I had lots of visitors as well as a brilliant team of artists and academics being part of this great event.…