Monday 28 October 2013
Hula Hoop bag
Sunday 27 October 2013
Living Library - Bloomsbury Festival
Delighted to design for this now annual event at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine which was very busy with lots of human books in character! Part of the Bloomsbury Festival. Will gradually put up recent freelance commissions...
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THE SUBVERSIVE STITCH REVISITED: THE POLITICS OF CLOTH
Very busy working with the team on this event - the tickets go on sale tomorrow. Tweets can be followed @Subv_Stitch
If you'd like to tweet about it please use #subv13 - thank you!
Friday
29- Saturday 30 November 2013 Sackler Centre for arts education,
Victoria
and Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL
Keynote
Speakers: Professor Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds, UK and artist Elaine
Reichek, USA
The
Subversive Stitch Revisited: The Politics of Cloth is an international event
that will explore the legacy of Rozsika Parker’s groundbreaking book, The
Subversive Stitch: embroidery and the making of the feminine (1984) and two
landmark exhibitions from 1988 that developed Parker’s ideas. It will consist
of a two-day event held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and an online
resource that will include documentation of all contributions. The event will
be dedicated to the memory of Rozsika Parker, who died in 2010.
The
first day will begin by looking back to the art and feminist debates of the
1970s and 80s from which both the book and the exhibitions emerged, and will
feature keynote presentations by Professor Griselda Pollock, University of
Leeds, whose collaborative work with Parker during that period produced key
feminist art texts, and leading American artist Elaine Reichek in conversation
with Jenni Sorkin (University of California, Santa Barbara).
The
event will then explore the politics of cloth now, focusing on current activity
by both women and men that addresses ethical, social and global issues, and on
cloth as a subversive strategy, with an emphasis on radical, subversive and
interventionist projects that question and challenge structures of power.
Speakers
include:
Megha
Rajguru + Nicola Ashmore, Đorđe Balmazović, Michael Bath, Claire Barber + Rowan
Bailey, Lise Bjørne Linnert, Leah Borromeo, Anthea Black + Nicole Burisch,
Christine Checinska, Sarah Corbett, Steffi Duarte, Leora Farber, Elke Gaugele,
Betsy Greer, Roisin Inglesby, Alexandra Kokoli, Kimberly Lamm, Anne Moore,
Brenda Schmahmann, Rose Sinclair, Jenni Sorkin, Matt Smith, Lisa Vinebaum,
Liese Van Der Watt
Bookings will go live on Monday 28th October on
For general enqueries
please contact subversivestitch@gold.ac.uk
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Please note: Presentations on the first day will be held in the Hochhauser
Auditorium and on the second in a large seminar room, with a smaller capacity.
This means that more tickets are available for the first day than the second.
Therefore tickets will need to be booked separately for each day.
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There will be a limited number of discounted tickets for bona fide students on
a first-come-first-served basis.
The
Subversive Stitch Revisited is collaboration between The Women's Art Library,
Goldsmiths, University of London, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and writer
and curator Pennina Barnett, and in partnership with Iniva (Institute of
International Visual Art).
Poster
image adapted from The Subversive Stitch sampler by Lyn Malcolm, commissioned
by Cornerhouse and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester for The Subversive
Stitch exhibitions 1988. Designer: Jessica Smulders Cohen.
Twitter:
@Subv_Stitch
Wednesday 25 September 2013
Welsh Space Campaign
Hello
Have been moving into more freelance design work while still making bespoke bag orders, hence a long time since posting. I couldn't resist posting about this one:
The Welsh Space Campaign, by Hefin Jones, has won this year's Christine Risley Award, at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Goldsmiths BA (Hons) Design graduate Hefin, from Cardigan in Wales, created a space suit made by Welsh craftsmen from materials sourced in Wales.
A plumber has built a pressure system for the spacesuit, a traditional clog maker has made space clogs, and the last remaining wool mills in Wales have provided material for the space suit.
Hefin explains: "The Welsh Space Campaign (WSC) launches ordinary Welsh people into outer space, by finding a cosmic context for Welsh culture, skills and traditions. I aim to reveal that Wales has the capacity to explore space, and to show that off-world culturalisation can be achieved through a collective communitarian effort; as a way to allow the people involved to reconsider their role and skill in relation to these cosmic contexts."
The piece will be exhibited in the Constance Howard Gallery at Goldsmiths from 24 September - 24 October, after which it will become part of the Welsh National Museum Archive.
The Christine Risley Award is a cash prize awarded by the Goldsmiths Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery to a graduating Goldsmiths student for outstanding work relating to textiles, in memory of Christine Risley.
As a textile artist, Christine Risley (1926-2003) was a key member of Constance Howard's remarkable and innovative department of textiles. In the 1960s Christine pioneered the teaching of machine embroidery and established one of the most exciting courses of the period. A great teacher, and writer on the subject, she encouraged her students to be adventurous in both work and life.
Christine retired in 1990 and died in 2003, and her special collection of clothes helped to fund acquisitions for the Goldsmiths Textile Collection. Each year, an outstanding Goldsmiths graduate working with the medium of textiles is awarded a prize in her memory.
Have been moving into more freelance design work while still making bespoke bag orders, hence a long time since posting. I couldn't resist posting about this one:
Goldsmiths BA (Hons) Design graduate Hefin, from Cardigan in Wales, created a space suit made by Welsh craftsmen from materials sourced in Wales.
A plumber has built a pressure system for the spacesuit, a traditional clog maker has made space clogs, and the last remaining wool mills in Wales have provided material for the space suit.
Hefin explains: "The Welsh Space Campaign (WSC) launches ordinary Welsh people into outer space, by finding a cosmic context for Welsh culture, skills and traditions. I aim to reveal that Wales has the capacity to explore space, and to show that off-world culturalisation can be achieved through a collective communitarian effort; as a way to allow the people involved to reconsider their role and skill in relation to these cosmic contexts."
The piece will be exhibited in the Constance Howard Gallery at Goldsmiths from 24 September - 24 October, after which it will become part of the Welsh National Museum Archive.
The Christine Risley Award is a cash prize awarded by the Goldsmiths Textile Collection & Constance Howard Gallery to a graduating Goldsmiths student for outstanding work relating to textiles, in memory of Christine Risley.
As a textile artist, Christine Risley (1926-2003) was a key member of Constance Howard's remarkable and innovative department of textiles. In the 1960s Christine pioneered the teaching of machine embroidery and established one of the most exciting courses of the period. A great teacher, and writer on the subject, she encouraged her students to be adventurous in both work and life.
Christine retired in 1990 and died in 2003, and her special collection of clothes helped to fund acquisitions for the Goldsmiths Textile Collection. Each year, an outstanding Goldsmiths graduate working with the medium of textiles is awarded a prize in her memory.
Monday 25 March 2013
Bags inspiring poetry
The exhibition 'Bags: The Craft of the Carrying Companion' has now ended but the display was superb. Some local writers were inspired to write a couple of poems, the first one refers to my large purse and the second one is solely about the large purse which asks questions that several passers by ask me on the street!
Bags
Big bags and small bags.
Short bags and tall bags.
Bags of every size and shape.
Made of fabric softly draped.
Some of leather, new and old.
Shiny, polished, good to hold.
Bags to carry on bus or train.
Bags built to carry extra strains.
Cases for clothes and underwear.
Cases for picnics we love to share.
Some open out flat as a sheet.
Some fold down, nice and neat.
A giant purse takes centre stage
Try your hand at decoupage,
Or leather strips for you to weave
Items here you won’t believe
Giant purse
What do you put in a giant purse?
Some pennies to pay for a journey home,
Or a lovely dinner for when you get back?
Make up to enhance a lovely face?
A lacy hanky to stop a sneeze?
There’s lots and lots of room in there.
These beautiful suitcases at the same exhibition really stood out for me.
Sunday 20 January 2013
Sea Spurge
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| Sea Spurge: Old Hunstanton Beach, Norfolk |
Wednesday 2 January 2013
Bilston Craft Gallery
BAGS: THE CRAFT OF THE CARRYING COMPANION
BILSTON CRAFT GALLERY
15 DECEMBER 2012 - 9 MARCH 2013
This exhibition is free and up and running in Bilston, just outside Wolverhampton. The curation is very impressive and I love this picture they took of a selection of printed and recycled Betty's Revenge bags.
This exhibition is free and up and running in Bilston, just outside Wolverhampton. The curation is very impressive and I love this picture they took of a selection of printed and recycled Betty's Revenge bags.
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| Betty's Revenge bags at Bilston Craft Gallery |
