I’ve been a part of Ruth Singer’s ‘Making Meaning’ membership for a few months. I didn’t really know her work well, I’d seen some bits. But after reading up on it, I realised my work lacked this ‘deeper’ meaning. Where every mark and material choice and size and shape is there for a reason. After …
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Amazing Arachnophilia by Tomás Saraceno
When you come across something that is so incredibly interesting it stops you from doing anything except going back and reading and scrolling and reading. Not sure how I found it but the Arachnophilia project by Tomás Saraceno and his studio and collaborators is incredible. It seems to be a series of projects, spanning years …
My work in the theatre
It was a path I had no idea I would go down, but during 2021 I worked on the costumes for three plays in the Porto theatre. UM GOSTO DE MEL The most recent was an adaptation of Shelagh Delaney’s play ‘A Taste of Honey’. Directed by Emanuel Rodrigues with a great cast of actors, …
Beautiful Kantha Embroidery
This will be a visual feast of kantha embroidery research and found imagery from around the web and the world. I was doing a little kantha embroidery – to clarify, kantha can just mean running stitch, but I think of it when it is dense and continuous – forming patterns from the negative space. Before …
The enigmatic Kati Horna
The photographer Kati Horna took beautiful and surreal images. When she was just 25 years old, she was commissioned to capture photographs of the Spanish Civil War (1937). Her view and depiction of what was happening within communities at the time of the war are thought to have drawn a lot of attention to the …
Re-imagining Madge Gill
Experiencing first hand this morning the power of stitching to bring people together. A lovely zoom with East London Textile Arts and – a project re-imaginging the work of Madge Gill. An open brief to stitch or explore her work in some way. Madge worked in such a way that it connects people. She used …
My artwork musings #3 – ART DESIGN or CRAFT or
Looking at my personal values of art, design or craft.
Sooo… this is something I have trouble with but am really interested in. I know I could get into really in-depth research about the difference between art design or craft… but I need to dissect it myself by just writing some notes and hoping it forms something coherent.
Networks in art, data patterns & unknown Inca mysteries
I’ve set myself a difficult task. To write about something that I don’t really understand. Networks in art, data patterns & unknown Inca mysteries… quite a mysterious title, ey? I don’t even really know where to start. Oh yeah, this YouTube video introduced me to the mind boggling fact that seemingly random and completely desperate …
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My art work musings #2 – The difficulty in being excited by too many textiles techniques
(A long title, but there we go.) I have the affliction of a textiles addict. Excited by every new shiny technique that I come across. I know I’m not the only one, I’ve read about others. Others who see something and long to learn how it is made… others who see a technique and instantly …
My art work musings #1 – Getting back into it
I find it very difficult talking about my art work. So here is a start…Awkward though it may be. I started making art again; away from university, away form any structured group and probably 10 years since I had allowed myself to regularly practice and nurture my creativity. After working pretty solidly for people and …
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