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21st June 202218th July 2022

ARTISTS RESPONDING TO Issue 3

I’m pleased to announce that Summer ’76 has been selected by editor Polly Bates to appear in ARTISTS RESPONDING TO Issue 3 . The Magazine , available in July 2022 can be purchased as a physical A4 copy or digitally via the on-line shop.

“Catherine Hill reflects on the summer of 1976, the hottest summer of the 1970’s. Hill was oblivious to the water crisis growing all around her, as she was only 7 years old at the time, which resulted in the ‘Drought Act’ on 6th August 1976. There were serious emergency powers to reduce or turn off domestic and industrial water supplies. Hill now realises the signs of Global Warming were there for all to see. – We begin this week with a similar state of emergency, where the climate crisis is unavoidable. But we don’t have the luxury of waiting another 46 years for real action.”
Polly Bates

ARTISTS RESPONDING TO Issue 3 - red hand embroidery - words sharig memories of the drought of 1976 — Summer ’76

“ARTISTS RESPONDING TO … Magazine approaches paramount news and world happenings through the eyes of international artists, creatives and writers. We use creative depictions and literature to highlight current world issues, news and movements that aren’t getting the attention that they deserve. A political and environmental platform to help ignite conversations and spread awareness through visual and written poetic responses. Issue 3 includes an eclectic range of paintings, sculptures, drawings, textiles, photography, digital art, photography, you name it! A.R.T. Magazine is a quarterly publication, curated and designed by London-based Fine Artist Polly Bates.”

21st June 202223rd June 2022

Summer Art Exhibition

I’m pleased to announce that ‘Moors of Home‘ has been selected by the Open Gallery for their Summer Art Exhibition.

This Group Exhibition will take place 25th June – 15th July 2022, at Open Gallery, 18 Rawson Street, Halifax HX1 1NH.

Summer Art Exhibition Moors of Home| Hand Embroidered Textile Art |21 x 27 cm — Moors of Home| Hand Embroidered Textile Art |21 x 27 cm

The central panel features an extract from the poem ‘Pennine Ramble’ written by Ebron. It was first published in “A Lancashire Miscellany”, a newspaper column featured in weekend editions of the Oldham Chronicle between 1956 and 1959.

The words around the outer border depict a memory from my own childhood of visiting my Grandparents in Stacksteads, Lancashire.

On sunny days they would pack a picnic and say ‘Let’s go up clough’. For me this meant a short walk up the footpath, past the farm with a Border Collie dog and ducks, over the stile and through the broken dry-stone walls, followed by a steep climb up to the clough and the brook where the water flowed fresh from the moors. I’ve spent many summers since sitting on the same rock, under the tree and paddling my feed in the cool water.

Size 21 x 27 cm. Hand embroidered and hand stitched with vintage Sylko thread on cotton cloth Eco printed with leaves and petals from my lockdown garden in Summer 2020. Designed during Spring 2021 UK lockdown.

Moors of Home is part of a body of work about my Lancashire roots.

7th June 202225th August 2022

Colour Exhibition – Swiss Fibre Art

I’m pleased to announce that Worker Bees and Sound of the Mill #1 & #2 are part of the Colour Exhibition curated by SwissFibreArt and Vielfaeltig-Produzentengalerie . The textile exhibition takes place at Galerie Kalina, Am Plat71 1, D-94209 Regen, Germany 2nd-30th July 2022.

Given that ‘Black, Grey & Yellow’ is the exhibition’s colour theme, the first thing that popped into my head was a Manchester worker bee, and because I wanted a slightly industrial and aged look to the work, I chose to stitch into eco printed cloth.

Colour Exhibition - Worker Bees -hand embroidered in vintage threads in yellow and slate grey — Colour Exhibition: Worker Bees – hand embroidered in vintage threads in yellow and slate grey.

I usually stitch in red thread, so this was a challenge for me. I liked the result so much that I created two companion pieces called Sound of the Mill #1 & #2. Each piece features Lancashire dialect poetry from ‘The Cotton Mill’ poem first published in The Bolton Chronicle in 1864.

Colour Exhibition: Sound of the Mill #1 — Sound of the Mill #1

Galerie Kalina, Regen, Germany.

Following this exhibition, the artworks are travelling to a gallery in Switzerland.

Update August 2022:

The next leg of the exhibition tour, takes place at the Ortsmuseum Meilen, Zurich, Switzerland and starts on the 20th August 2022 and is on until early September.