Category: Work With Me
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Gentle Goal Setting for Myself – Part Two
Last week I shared my process of reviewing my year and then developing the Gentle Goal Setting Workshop alongside it. This week I’m sharing the goals I have come up with following my review, and a little more about how I got there. Leading up to writing the workbook, I had done quite a a…
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Precious Objects Sampler Workshop
Find a purpose for all those tiny treasures and special fabrics you love to collect. Make a Precious Objects Sampler in this weekend online workshop with textile artist Ruth Singer
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Textiles In Lockdown Online Talk
Join Ruth Singer to hear more about the textiles in lockdown project with Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, Monday 18th January. Textiles in Lockdown was a commission from Gawthorpe Textiles Collection to gather stories about textile making during the first UK lockdown in March-June 2020. I worked with them over the late summer to collect stories from…
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Great British Quilter Podcast
Ruth Singer interviewed for the Great British Quilter Podcast. December 2020
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Creative Communities
Working on your own as a creative maker or artist is hard enough in normal times and it’s even more challenging this year, both financially and personally. Isolation and struggling alone is very real. It can be hard to connect with friends and make new ones when you aren’t doing exhibitions, shows, teaching or other…
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Criminal Quilts talk
Textiles Inspired by Women Photographed in Stafford Prison 1877-1916. Friday 24th July 2020 4-5.30pm BST In this talk, I will look at the background to this project which I started in 2012, creating textiles about the stories of Victorian and Edwardian women prisoners. As well as showing the textile artworks from the touring exhibition, I will…
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What it means to be an artist in 2020
At the end of May 2020 I was offered the chance to share my images and words via the Instagram account of Contemporary Visual Art Networks – East Midlands. I created a week’s worth of posts exploring my experience of being an artist in 2020, both before and during the time of Covid. I have…
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Criminal Quilts Free Activity Sheets
I’ve recently created an activity pack around Criminal Quilts for community workshop participants who I can’t currently meet up with. I’ve made a couple of the worksheets free for anyone to try. Download the free PDF here. You could use the case study of Fanny & Ada Riddle or Caroline Pulley as your creative inspiration. The full…
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Digital Print on Textile
My artist statement says that I prefer to use old cloth in my work, enjoying the history embedded within the textile, and I have tried throughout my 15 years of practice to use sustainable textile techniques. It isn’t the whole story as I do also use digital print on new fabrics for specific projects. I…
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