Tag: Leicester
-
Leicester Textiles Festival
I’m pleased to be part of this new event in the city this month with two pieces in the Textiles Open 16-24th September. The exhibition is mainly at StudionAme in Leicester although my work may be in another venue. Full details and opening times doesn’t seem to be available yet but check the website and…
-
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…
-
Lines and Places
Landscape history and artist practice After a hedge-hiatus early this year for my Blossom & Thorn project, I’m back to my previous landscape project. I’m slowly walking all of the paths in a 10 square mile-ish area near my home and looking for interesting things like old boundaries, ancient woodlands, good hedges, ridge and furrow…
-
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…
-
Community artist residency
On Monday I joined Peace of Green‘s Wellness in Nature group at Belgrave Hall gardens in Leicester. I’m artist in residence with the group over the next year as part of my Cultures of Care project. Once a month I’ll spend a few hours with the group, observing and chatting to people, running activities and…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Following Paths and Hedges
Paths and boundaries are where I started with the creative journey of making Blossom & Thorn, my project about the stories of hedges in the National Forest.
-
-
Supporting Artist Projects
I’m always looking for new ways to share what I’ve learned the last 20 years or so and to support other artists to do brilliant work.
Ruth Singer 