Ruth Singer

Tag: Criminal Quilts

  • Postable Presents

    Postable Presents

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    Postable and digital gifts from Ruth Singer ; books, workshops, artworks, prints and gift cards

  • Criminal Quilts and food poverty

    Criminal Quilts and food poverty

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    New case studies about women criminals and fundraising for Leicester’s new foodbank

  • Criminal Quilts talk

    Criminal Quilts talk

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    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…

  • Criminal Quilts Case Study – Harriet George

    Criminal Quilts Case Study – Harriet George

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    Criminal Quilts is my an exhibition, research project and book.  The textiles I have created are inspired by the stories of women who were photographed on release from Stafford Prison between 1877 and 1916. I was fascinated when I first saw the photographs from the 1870s where the women have their hands on their chests.…

  • Criminal Quilts Case Study – Fanny and Ada Riddle

    Criminal Quilts Case Study – Fanny and Ada Riddle

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    Criminal Quilts is my an exhibition, research project and book.  The textiles I have created are inspired by the stories of women who were photographed on release from Stafford Prison between 1877 and 1916. I was fascinated when I first saw the photographs from the 1870s where the women have their hands on their chests.…

  • Visit Criminal Quilts (online)

    Visit Criminal Quilts (online)

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    While my Criminal Quilts exhibition is behind bars (in boxes), I have created a free online version of the exhibition. I’ve included lots of high resolution images including details of embroidery, quilting and showing textures and stitches as much as possible. All the exhibition panels, labels and other resources are also on my website for…

  • Creating Community

    Creating Community

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    I’m always being asked what inspires me, where I get my ideas from, how those ideas go from thoughts to textiles, how I create exhibitions, what my next project will be and so much more…  With this in mind, I have come up with a behind-the-scenes mini magazine where you will be able to find out…

  • Refocussing towards social justice

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    Last autumn, on one of my many long work-related drives, I was pondering what kind of themes I wanted to explore in my work in 2020 and beyond. Two major projects had been filling my brain for months; Criminal Quilts and my personal work exhibitions Emotional Repair and Textile Traces. All of these had powerful,…

  • Criminal Quilts is back!

    Criminal Quilts is back!

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    After a little pause on Criminal Quilts, I am pleased to say that we are back up and running!  From January I will be working on new collaborations, community work and a symposium taking place in 2020-21. First up though, the exhibition is coming up very soon at Galleries of Justice, Nottingham from 7th December 2019…

  • My Shop

    My Shop

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    Since my Textile Traces exhibition has closed, I have been doing a little studio housekeeping and sorting out a lot of work which needs to find a new home! My online shop has had a facelift and is starting to fill up with prints, textiles, collaborations, textile jewellery and other treasures appearing from the archives…