Tag: Bethany Walker
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Tacit exhibition
Tacit – Made in Leicestershire contemporary craft exhibition at LCB Depot 17th-29th September. My first co-curated contemporary craft exhibition is now open! On Friday I installed Tacit – Made in Leicestershire exhibition at LCB Depot in Leicester. I am working for Creative Leicestershire as a consultant on the Made in Leicestershire brand development and putting…
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Interlace collaboration
My collaboration Interlace with Bethany Walker is going from strength to strength! In 2016 we ran Urban Growth an exciting community project with 8-13 year olds to create a permanent piece of concrete and cloth outdoor work of art in Leicester. This project was funded by the Joyce Carr Doughty Trust. Over the Spring and…
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Urban Growth Project Launch
My collaboration project Interlace was recently commissioned to create a new public artwork with young people in Leicester. Bethany and I worked with 8-13 year olds in January and February this year to design and make a set of concrete and cloth tiles inspired by the urban environment to be displayed at Makers’ Yard studios…
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Interlace at Synchronise II
My collaboration with Bethany Walker will be shown in Synchronise II at The National Centre For Craft & Design from 4th July – 6th September.
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Interlace
This weekend sees the launch of an exciting new project which I have been working on for over a year. Bethany Walker and I have created Interlace, a collaboration of cloth and concrete. Our showcase exhibition opens on Saturday 21st March upstairs at Bilston Craft Gallery and runs until 19th April. The exhibition includes two…
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Daily Make (7)
I’ve recently been having a great time experimenting with screen printing, which I’ve not done since school! I’ve been printing on fabrics to make into more petals for Interlace, my collaboration with Bethany Walker. Our exhibition opens in less than 4 weeks time so there is lots to do…. Along with grey petals, I’m also…
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Daily Make (5 & 6)
My excuse for missing an entire week of #dailymake2015 was my birthday last weekend. I made a dress for my birthday party and did a lot of work on petals for Interlace as our exhibition deadline looms ever closer! I’ve also got back into knitting which is a joy. Some of the last couple of week’s…
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Interlace on show in Craft and Conflict at Bilston Craft Gallery
Work by Interlace is on show in Craft and Conflict at Bilston Craft Gallery until 22nd November 2014. We created work specifically for this show, using white petals instead of our usual colours. By creating fragile textile forms fixed into concrete, we explore making the ephemeral permanent and preserving memories set in stone. The…
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Collaboration with Bethany Walker: work in progress
I’ve long been fascinated by Bethany’s combination of textiles and cement; the contrasting soft and hard materials, the transformation of cloth from malleable to solid objects and the potential her innovative techniques would hold for my kind of manipulated textiles. Last year I applied to a-n’s collaboration bursary to fund our travel and expenses to…
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Unfold – exploring the process of collaboration
I’m delighted to be showing my collaboration with Alys Power at this new exhibition at Walford Mill Crafts from 5th April – 18th May 2014. I’m just starting work on two new collaborations with makers for exhibition later this summer too, one with Bethany Walker and one with Sharyn Dunn.
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