Every two years Claudia and her colleagues over at Swiss Fiber Art design an exciting new project in collaboration with international textile artists. Their new project for 2024/2025 is the Swiss Fiber Art Fanzine and I’m delighted to announce that Bunting, Butties and a Brew & Manchester Tart have been accepted for publication.
Bunting, Butties and a Brew – part of the Swiss Fiber Art Fanzine
Manchester Tart
My projects start with a handful of my favourite vintage Sylko threads
Swiss Fiber Art Fanzine
A series of zines will be published throughout the two years of the project.
The project is running until December 2025 and the list of themes are: mushrooms, science, food, insects, plastic, time, architecture and humans.
I’m pleased to announce that Moors of Home has been selected for the Lancashire Library Open 2024, celebrating Lancaster University Library’s 60th Anniversary. Thirty two artworks are taking part in the exhibition.
Moors of Home. Part of the Lancashire Library Open 2024
The exhibition will be in show at the Lancashire University Library, Alexandra Square, Lancaster LA1 4YW from 13th September – 4th October 2024.
Lancashire Library Open 2024
The exhibition theme is ‘How does the library inspire you?’
Libraries and books are the cornerstone to my work. They act as a valuable resource and inspiration. A portion of my work is focussed on my love of Lancashire Poetry.
The central panel is an extract from the Lancashire poem ‘Pennine Ramble’ written by Ebron, first published in “A Lancashire Miscellany”, a newspaper column featured in weekend editions of the Oldham Chronicle between 1956 and 1959.
My own words around the outer border depict a memory from my childhood of visiting my Grandparents in Stacksteads, Lancashire. Designed in Spring 2021 during lockdown in the UK. Cotton cloth eco printed with plants from my lockdown garden.
Update: September 25th 2024
Thank you curator Lela Harris for the following photos taken at the exhibition preview evening.
A new exhibition at the House of Smalls called ‘Moral Fibre’ prompted me to create a new piece of work called ‘Peterloo’ for the Dollhouse gallery.
The exhibition takes place at The House of Smalls, 103 Henderson Row, Stockbridge, Edinburgh EH3 5BB from 1st – 25th August 2024. Part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
‘A good life is like a weaving. Energy is created in the tension. The struggle, the pull and tug are everything’ ~ Joan Erikson
Artists in the Dollhouse ‘Moral Fibre’ exhibition
Peterloo
“If we don’t vote, we are ignoring history and giving away the future” Pat Mitchell.
Our vote matters.
Peterloo
With each election, I think of those who came before us. Those who fought to give us the Right to Vote. Emelia Pankhurst and the fight for Women’s Suffrage; and the peaceful protestors at Peterloo in 1819.
On 16 August 1819, 60,000 people congregated in St Peter’s Field in Manchester – the largest ever political gathering of working-class people. Folk from towns across Lancashire marched to the field carrying banners with slogans supporting political reform and the right to vote; included were workers from Middleton near Rochdale, carrying a banner of locally woven blue silk, with the words ‘Liberty, Fraternity, Unity, Strength’ in hand-painted gold lettering.
Peterloo
Their peaceful protest turned bloody when Manchester magistrates gave orders to disperse the crowd. The Yeomanry pulled out their sabres and charged the crowd on horseback. An estimated 18 people died and more than 650 were injured in the chaos.
The tragic incident is known as the Peterloo Massacre. A moment when ordinary people stepped up to protest in a way that has made its mark in history and with a legacy that lives on to today.
Size 11.5 x 11.5cm. Hand embroidered cotton cloth, DMC embroidery thread.
