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Grass Lake (cropped) - Denise Oyama Miller - SAQA |
The highlight of the textile calender, for me at least, is the Knitting & Stitching Show. Whilst it travels to 3 venues, I go to Harrogate. London & Dublin are the alternatives. It is full of amazing exhibitions, talented artists showcasing their working methods, a plethora of supplies and workshops where you can have a go at making something yourself. Here are some pics of the work on show...
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Electric Fields (cropped) - Elizabeth Barton - SAQA |
The SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) exhibition, entitled Concrete & Grassland explored natural landscape & the constructed environment shown either separately or together.
The Cork Textiles Network had a Tales exhibition with works made in response to a chosen book...
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Book of Phrases, Phrases to Live By - Rose Mary Cullen inspired by Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott |
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disleksia - Christina Jasmin Roser inspired by the English Dictionary |
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All The Lights We Cannot See - Clodagh Caulfield - inspired by All The Lights We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr |
In the Folk Tales exhibition by Anne Kelly we see her work combining the natural world and folk art. Her collaborative piece "Travel Tags - Moving Memories which looks at travel and migration was also on show.
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Small Suitcase 2 - Anne Kelly |
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Self Portrait - Anne Kelly |
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Travel Tags - Collaborative Piece - Anne Kelly |
In the Studio 21 - Colour Notes exhibition, the artists explore their use of colour in different ways...
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Wedding Collar - Ross Belton |
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Protection - Jill Flower |
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Music of the Hills - Marion Glover |
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A Cumbrian Spectrum - Anne Froggatt |
Cas Holmes' Tea Flora Tales, supported by the Embroiderers' Guild, is an ongoing collaboration with artists and makers to explore our relationship to the landscape and the work of Plantlife, a British conservation charity working nationally and
internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants and fungi. You could prune a bit of the display to take home for a donation to Plantlife.
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Tea Flora Tales - Cas Holmes |
Cas Holmes' Textile Landscape exhibition connecting people, landscape and place was also on display...
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Blue Thistle (top L), Medway Gap (top R), North Kent Marshes (bottom R), View from Mallety (bottom L)- Cas Holmes |
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Llandiloes - Cas Holmes |
The theme for the Embroiderers' Guild Members' Challenge competition 2017/18 was "Underfoot". Here are some fab examples...
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Carol Sutherland, Su Allington, Liz Smith |
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Elise Stewart, Janet Payne, Carrie Archer |
In the Graduate Showcase I loved the work of Libby Vale and the work of Embroiderers' Guild Scholars Melanie Kay & Jessica Grady...
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Be Everything - Libby Vale |
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Ironing Bored & Harm Chair - Libby Vale |
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Wash it Away - Melanie Kay |
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Gone With The Wind & Remember When - Melanie Kay |
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Melanie Kay |
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Jessica Grady |
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Jessica Grady |
More to come later in Part 2...