Tag: artist
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Threads connecting across time
Take part in Mary Linwood workshop for free in Loughborough 29th May I’ve been thinking recently, as I often do, about how thread and stitch connects us across time and across cultures. One of the most striking things about Mary Linwood‘s story is how she went from fame to obscurity. She was a hugely successful and…
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Artist Development Day
At Mill Field Forest Garden, Thurmaston, Leicestershire. Monday 2nd June 10am-3pm £5 I am putting on this event at the wonderful Mill Field in Thurmaston in a few weeks. It’s a glorious green space on the edge of Leicester and a really inspiring place to spend some time thinking about working with nature. I’d love to share this…
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Making Meaning Journal
Issue 2 of my publication exploring care in my creative practice is available now, to download for free Making Meaning Journal is a place for me to share my writing about my work and my projects in depth. This issue focusses on my work around nature connection and outdoor arts projects over the last 18…
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Map Making
Places and Traces project is developing quickly now. Last summer we went on walks and did wild workshops in the woods and orchards, and spent the winter meetings in the local studies library exploring maps and documents. Over the next few months we are working with artist Hannah Moreton to create a large map sharing…
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Find Your Focus for 2025
Working out what’s the right thing for you in your creative practice. The world is pretty confusing and distracting at the moment isn’t it? It seems harder than ever to focus on your own little world of creative practice when there is so much misery, crisis and injustice happening. I’m not claiming this course will…
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Reflecting on Reflective Writing
New versions of my Reflective Writing for Creative Practice are available now Course 1 – Creative Practice wide explorations for any creative person Course 2 is focussed around making and artist practice, ideal for artists and as a follow-on from course 1. I’ve created two version of the course now – the original (Course 1)…
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Mapping our personal histories
Places & Traces project has moved indoors after a summer of walks and wild workshops. We are now looking at maps and documents to plan our own tactile map of emotional histories of Charnwood Forest. The final two meetings of this year are in Loughborough library where we are looking at historical maps and talking…
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Exhibition: For Your Convenience
For Your Convenience : Exploring Convenience Culture through an Artistic Lens. 27th November – 13th December 2024. Norman Rea Gallery University of York I’m pleased to be showing a new piece in this exhibition. Make Gardens Green Again was part of my Land Shapes exhibition in my garden studio earlier this year. It is part…
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Places and Traces of the Landscape
My Charnwood local history and landscape project moves indoors this month In October we had the last of the walks and wild workshops outside for Places & Traces. We took a short ramble along the bridleway, the old road, on the very edge of Loughborough. It’s one of my favourite places to walk and it…
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Connected Threads community textile project
The first event in the Mary Linwood project took place at The Big Textile Show in Leicester last weekend. Remembering Mary Linwoodand generations of unknown stitchers A community textile project in celebration of Mary Linwood,Leicester’s forgotten 18th century embroidery celebrity! – In these workshops we are using wool threads to make cords toconstruct into a…