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Bound Part 1

Bound part 1 - vintage kitchen utensils wrapped in vintage cream cloured thread and red sylko thread

Bound Part 1, is a new piece of work featuring pieces from my collection of vintage kitchen utensils.

For generations women have been bound to the home and a life of domesticity. This piece is a celebration of the tools of their trade.

Beautiful Skyline products manufactured in the Lancashire town of Burnley, well-worn wooden spoons and unusual utensils.

Each piece tells a story through the imperfections, scars and dents it has collected through use. Artwork is mounted onto a cotton tea-towel woven in Quarry Bank Mill .

Size 31 x 38 cm. Vintage kitchen utensils, hand bound with vintage crochet and Sylko threads.

Bound part 1 - vintage kitchen utensils wrapped in vintage cream cloured thread and red sylko thread
Bound Part 1
Bound part 1 - vintage kitchen utensils wrapped in vintage cream cloured thread and red sylko thread
Bound in vintage threads with a hint of my favourite Vintage red Sylko thread

This piece forms part of a body of work about my Lancashire roots.

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Water Works Exhibition

I’m pleased to announce that “Moors of Home ” has been selected by Sarah, curator at Spring Up Gallery, for the Water Works Exhibition. This virtual exhibition will be available to view from 15th August to 12th September 2021 via this link.

To read more about this artwork, please visit this post.

Exhibition Poster showing a background of rippling blue water
Exhibition Poster
Moors of Home - red hand embroidered words of a lancashire poem onto cotton cloth
Moors of Home

Size 21 x 27 cm. The piece is 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.

Screen shot of the Gallery
Screen shot of the Virtual Gallery
Screen shot of the Water Works Exhibition Gallery
Screen shot of the Water Works Exhibition Gallery

This is the third time I have exhibited art with the Spring Up Gallery.

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Collateral Project

Collateral Project instructions, white fabric and thread

This new embroidery is my contribution to the Collateral Project curated by artist Brigid McLeer. Over a hundred embroiderers have each received a kit of instructions and materials to complete their blocks.

Each embroiderer has the freedom to compete the outline in a stitch of their choice. I chose a form of split stitch using a single strand of 6 stranded embroidery thread. The finishing touch was stitching five bows.

Collateral Project - hand embroidered white thread on silk organza - image of the outline of a body wrapped in cloth
Hand embroidered with white thread

The completed embroidery panel will exhibit at Queen Street Mill, Burnley, Lancashire from 1st – 31st October 2021.

Collateral Project - hand embroidered white thread on silk organza - image of the outline of a body wrapped in cloth
Close up – bows added to the final embroidery
Collateral Project a whte thread embroidery on whaite cloth showing a bdy in a shroud, photographed at Queen Street Mill
Collateral Project will be displayed at Queen Street Mill

“For British Textile Biennial 2021 artist Brigid McLeer creates a memorial to the hundreds of workers who die in factories and sweatshops across the world that supply the global garment industry. Made in collaboration with local embroiderers and inspired by a large scale lace panel from the Gawthorpe Textile Collection commemorating the Battle of Britain, the work will be a moving testament to the lives lost to feed the West’s seemingly bottomless appetite for fast fashion. The new embroidered panel will be 450 x 163 cm and around three of its four sides will be a 10cm wide border with a repeated motif. The motif re-draws the repeated pattern of wheat sheaves depicted on the Battle of Britain lace panel, as a repeated pattern of bodies, wrapped in fabric and laid out on the ground, drawn from a photograph of victims taken after the Kader Industrial factory fire in 1993.”

Collateral Project

Collateral is just one of many events taking part in the British Textile Biennial held across Lancashire in October. This is the second piece of embroidery I have created for the British Textile Biennial 2021.