textiles
My aims for the Arts Council England DYCP funding were to learn new skills and explore the potential of new techniques and materials. My work had been small in scale and dominated by the use of textiles and textile processes to interpret social heritage. The DYCP grant gave me an opportunity to find a stronger…
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In 1909, plans were drawn up for the first development of social housing in Portsmouth. These plans followed a wave of private housing initiatives in the nineteenth century lead by industrialists providing accommodation for their workers. Some of these heeded increasing scientific knowledge and understanding of the relationship between housing conditions and the health and…
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I am delighted to have been selected as the Artist in Residence for Portsmouth City Council’s City of Stories, funded by Arts Council England. For the next three months I am working with the city archives and making work in response to my research.
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#wipinthewindow shows rough ideas and work in development and aims to shift the emphasis from the ‘end product’ by giving a stage to the process behind the work.
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Meet Lauren Griffiths, the brains behind Shop Small, a curated pop-up that champions independent designer/makers. Lauren’s latest pop-up will take place this December and is the ideal place to find quality, one-off gifts with an ethical emphasis. I asked Lauren a few questions about the event and the ethos behind it. How would you describe…
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Threads is a participatory textile project lead by local artists Abi Wheeler and Carol Ann Eades. The work, commissioned by Ryde Arts in partnership with Ryde Library is being made at a time of transition in Ryde; against a backdrop of regeneration planning. As key stakeholders for the town debate it’s future, the work centralises…
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During my visit this week to the artefacts collection at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth, I looked at three lifejackets from 1915, c.1950 and c.1970. 1915 The earliest of these was patented at the beginning of WW1 and was more than a conventional lifejacket. This life saving device was designed and marketed at…
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Over the next few weeks, I am focussing my attention on the lifejacket and am using a residency period at Aspex gallery in Portsmouth to investigate this iconic object with fresh eyes. Having accumulated several contemporary lifejackets which in colour, shape and context are already familiar even to the likes of non-seafaring me, I arranged…
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So, dye testing has begun for the three new colourways to be introduced later in the year.
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