Well – we made it!
Click on the link below to view all the selected films shown at the 2012 Stroud International Textiles Pairings launch party! Hope many of you can visit this year’s exhibitions and events and follow the artists’ blogs about their collaborative work.
http://stroudinternationaltextiles.org.uk/pairingsopen.html
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There are now three reviews of the exhibition, which can be located at the top of the page, by clicking on the separate links. The reviews have been written by Maggie Grey, Sian Martin and Karen MacDonald and we are very grateful to them for their time and effort in producing these reviews for us.
They are all interesting and well thought out and offer different slants on the exhibition. I hope everyone enjoys reading them…..
Hi everyone. A quick construct of the show as a flick walk through, some apologies for the music and titles. There is a complete walk through film (without the titles and music) which you may have a copy of on DVD if you would like. It does record everyones work. Just let me know. I would need to charge for postage and the cost of the DVD which I think will come to about £5 hope that is ok? Jayne Butler
the youtube video link is at http://youtu.be/rZ7-DmjutHE
We were joined on the train to Taunton on the setting up day for the exhibition by Sue Prichard, Curator of Contemporary Textiles at the V&A.
She put down the vagina she was embroidering – she was stitching this as her daughter is a member of The Shoreditch Sisters, an urban WI Group with a strong interest in craft, who have a current campaign against female genital mutilation – and joined us in a bit of light-hearted pompom making. She eventually got the hang of it and afterwards admitted to feeling ‘quite spent’ whereupon we were about to reach for the smelling salts – but after a short rest she perked up and was able to enjoy the rest of the journey!
We are indebted to Sue for her insight and professionalism in curating our Exhibition ‘Mapping the Future: Where Are You Now’
Credit to Jane Barker for the photo
Life is full of journeys – physical, emotional and spiritual. Our personal journeys, the paths we choose – consciously or unconsciously, twisting, turning, advancing, retreating – and the invisible marks that we leave behind as we travel are represented in these strip maps.
‘Trade Routes’ explores my towns local links to the slave trade, and the ‘everyday’ luxuries we enjoy – tea, coffee, sugar, chocolate etc plus my favourite dyestuff – Indigo, and the locally produced goods that would have been traded.
‘Links’ is a knitted neckpiece [sorry no image] inspired by african ceremonial pieces, but in similar style to an Elizabethan ruff. This piece brings together my thoughts, family ties and the influence of where I live and work, with my connections to Africa, through family, church and our fairtrade business.
I am intrigued by the idea of the accident of birth and became interested in asylum seekers. The words ‘the only thing I own is the shirt on my back’ become symbolic of those forced to leave their country with no belongings and I have used a deconstructed shirt to map this journey
Stephanie Wooster is a knitter working in Bristol. With this piece she explores how her work is developed through the hand and eye, the processes of cognition being a full body experience.
Resembling an anatomical illustration, action and creative critique are rendered in the structural and tactile
Dynamic stitched architectural installations, pushing the boundaries of textiles to construct vibrant three-dimensional ‘drawings’ in space.
Fascinated by patterns of change over time, Glasbrook uses brightly coloured threads to plot and contain space as markers of this process
Mapping the Future 