The ‘Sensing Culture – The Mark of the Maker’ exhibition is still on show in the Front Room Gallery at The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury, Kent, England. To quote the publicity it is “A stunning exhibition by people with sight loss, created in workshops led by artists Wendy Daws and Claire Buckley […]
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Sensing Culture – the Mark of the Maker
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Also tagged Canterbury Cathedral, Education, HLF, RNIB, The Beaney, Visually Impaired People
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The Language of Green
SoCo Artists The Language of Green Art Exhibition An exhibition linked to the local Jack in the Green Festival. Over the last few decades, green has become an ideological and political colour as never before. At other times in history it has been associated with a host of contradictory ideas, which range from evil […]
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Also tagged free machine embroidery, Hastings, jewels, SoCo, vintage
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Women & Domesticity
I have been busy preparing work for the Women & Domesticity project led by Vanessa Marr. The exhibition of dusters is coming up soon in Eastbourne. My work uses embroidered dusters and jam jars to reference a pleasurable domestic activity based on a quote by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there. […]
Textile Journeys
Textile Journeys opens this week at Hastings Arts Forum in St Leonards on Sea. 21st November -3rd December 2013. To celebrate the opening all of the atrists have made lengths of red textiles which have been wrapped around the pilars in front of the gallery. I have my tapestry weaving in the exhibiton this work […]
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Also tagged chairs, free machine embroidery, tapestry weaving
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Transitions continues
I spent the day at Knole last Saturday talking to the many visitors and weaving. The design of this tapestry is inspired by the coronet from the stained glass window on the Great Staircase at Knole. The texture in the cream is due to the slight slub in the wool and silk yarn I am adding […]
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Transitions is now open 26th March to 28th April 2013
The tapestry weaving exhibition ‘Transitions’ is now open at Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent, England, 26th March to 28th April. The exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday in The Orangery. The house is also open to visitors Tueaday to Sunday. Entry fees are payable for the house (free for National Trust members) but not for the exhibtion. However I would […]
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International Women’s Day 8th March 2013
Transitions, Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent. The inspiration for the work has a very female context, blending colours and refering to the change of skin colour when we blush.Virginia Wolf in ‘Orlando’ perfectly describes the colours and contents of Knole. Red is referred to often and I have repeatedly used red in my work for many years. […]
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Fire and Water- Catherine wheel
The work that I am showing in the Fire and Water exhibition at St Johns Church, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex is inspired by the St Catherine window. St Catherine is the patron saint of lace makers and so is close to the heart of textile artists. I have made the wheels form merino […]
In the Light of Surrealism
Hastings Arts Forum, St Leonards on Sea 13th – 25th September 2012 I am going to be showing embroidery and tapestry pieces in the forthcoming exhibition ‘in the light of Surrealism’ at Hastings Arts Forum. Please see the links for an atricle about the show in Cultural Quater magazine and Hastings Arts Forum website. […]
Identity open
The British Tapestry exhibition Identity is now open at the Mill House Gallery, Angmering, West Sussex BN16 4DQ . It is open daily until Sunday 15th April. At the Private View yesterday the exhibitors were pleased by the positive response to the work and the gallery space. The range of work on the theme is fabulous from the […]