Tag: embroidery
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Making Meaning Podcast Episode 28 with Lucie Bea Dutton
Making Meaning podcast with Ruth Singer with Lucie Bea Dutton
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Sharing Worn Stories
This weekend is re/action festival in Leicester city centre, where you can see our recent community project artwork, Worn Stories. Over the last few months, me and Mandeep Dhadialla have been working with a group of lovely people who are from sanctuary-seeking backgrounds and are supported by the Red Cross in Leicester. The completed art…
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Textile Traces Workshop
Over the weekend I ran my first in-person workshop in my garden studio! It’s was a bit of a squeeze with the exhibition on at the same time and lots of materials but we had a great time. The workshop was a chance to try some of the techniques I used for recording family textiles…
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Cultures of Care online talk & workshop
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I’ve had such a lot of interest over the last couple of months about my new Cultures of Care project – it’s been really heartwarming to hear from people about how this subject resonates. There’s a lot going on with the project already including a community project artist residency, supported spaces in my Maker Membership…
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Textile Traces workshop
Record and catalogue antique textiles, tell family stories and create artwork that does not damage the precious textiles. In-person and online workshops with Ruth Singer When I created my work Imprint, I knew I wanted to share what I learned from the process. Imprint is an artwork archive recording details and stories about a family…
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Gathering : Material Evidence
My Material Evidence exhibition in my garden studio is suddenly next week! I’ve just had a delivery of wonderful work by Kathryn Parsons which will go alongside some of my recent work. The exhibition starts on 2nd August and continues until 20th August on a handful of dates only. My part of the exhibition includes…
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Material Evidence Exhibition & Events
I’m putting on a small exhibition in my garden studio in Loughborough 2-20 August. As well as some of my own recent work, I’ve invited Kathryn Parsons to show some of her work as well. We have a small events programme alongside, details of these are below. Material evidence is an intimate exhibition of recent…
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Worn Stories
Yesterday was the first of six sessions for a community project I’m running with Mandeep Dhadialla. We have been commissioned by ArtReach to create a project with refugees from around the world and now living in Leicester exploring stories of textiles & recycling. It was such an inspiring and enjoyable session with really fantastic conversations…
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Freestyle embroidery
I recently got to revisit this embroidery I made a few years ago to write a post for my Textile Study Space about freestyle, no rules embroidery. The post (for subscribers) is about techniques, experimenting and finding your own style and about knowing what feels right and what doesn’t. I ended up getting very self…
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The Power of Personal Stories
I was thinking yesterday, on a museum visit, of the power of personal stories in heritage and in art practice. I often use objects as my source material but the stories about real, named women are what has made Criminal Quilts so impactful. It’s been important to me all the way through this 12-year long…
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