Tag: Leicester
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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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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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Stitching Emotions: call for contributions
Stitching Emotions is a new contributory project to make a piece for a large fabric book to be exhibited in my exhibition ‘Mary Linwood: Art, Stitch & Life’ in Sept 2025. We don’t know Mary Linwood’s feelings about her embroidery practice but she must have loved stitching. Women’s experiences in history are rarely recorded and…
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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…
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Mary Linwood and Me
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Behind the scenes for the last couple of years, I’ve been trying to make an exciting project happen. I’ve wanted to share the story of embroiderer Mary Linwood for even longer than that. I’m finally making it happen. Over the next year I am putting together an exhibition of Mary Linwood’s embroidery from Leicester Museums…
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Marks from the land
A creative nature session using berries, plants and soil to make maps for our emotional histories map Places and Traces is about exploring connections to the landscape we live in. It’s a community project taking place in Charnwood, Leicestershire. It’s part of my Cultures of Care project and is supported by Charnwood Geopark. Last month…
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Front Garden Fragments
At the moment I’ve got a new work on display in my Land Shapes exhibition, including a group of pieces exploring the loss of front gardens from our urban landscape. Land Shapes also includes new work about front gardens by Mandeep Dhadialla, a project with Karen Logan and other land-based work by me, made during…
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Creating Together
In the latest episode of my podcast Making Meaning, I talked about co-creation, which I define as making artworks with others. I’ve put together a page of some of the highlights of my co-creation work too. It really is an important part of my practice, and that’s not changing this year – I have several…
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Places & Traces of Charnwood Forest
Places & Traces is a creative landscape history project looking at how local people experience and feel about the Charnwood Forest area. Over the next year I’m hosting creative exploratory walks and wild workshops where we will explore what makes this area so special to us personally. I’m collecting community stories and experiences of this…
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Made in the Middle
I’m helping Craftspace promote their wonderful exhibition opportunity for Made in the Middle 2025. I just looked up when it was that I took part in this show with my Interlace collaboration. I’m shocked to see it was 2016! That seems so long ago now. But I have nothing but good memories from that project.…
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