Stitches in Time began as an experiment to see if sewing could start conversations between strangers – Lottie Whalen interviewed the team to find out more…
… Sewing Social Histories with Stitches in Time
Category: Interviews
An interview with Rachelle Romeo
North London based artist and activist Rachelle Romeo’s work caught our eye with her powerful and poetic use of embroidery.
An interview with Lubaina Himid
Through the Lancaster Dinner Service, Himid interrogates the city’s involvement in the slave trade, forcing the viewer to confront the dark histories of the British Empire and the ongoing legacies of this violence and oppression.
… An interview with Lubaina Himid
Interview: Surface designing with Hadiya Williams
Hadiya Williams is an art director based in Washington, DC and founder of Black Pepper Paperie Co, which sells globally-inspired, one-of-a-kind handcrafted pieces.
… Interview: Surface designing with Hadiya Williams
LJ Roberts’ Queer Epics
LJ Roberts (b.1980) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and is known for large-scale textile installations, intricate embroideries, artist books, collages and sculpture. Their work investigates the overlaps of queer and trans politics, alternative kinships, narrative, and material deviance. Daniel Fountain speaks to LJ here about the relationships between craft, identity and queer theory, and how this manifests itself in their practice.
… LJ Roberts’ Queer Epics
Interview: Ella Dorton on Craft, Community, and Culture
Hull-based artist Ella Dorton’s fabric portraits creatively capture the unique spirit of the city’s residents, giving a voice to those who have been left behind by society…
… Interview: Ella Dorton on Craft, Community, and Culture
Interview: Homework with Sharon Haward
Exploring the role of women artists, designers and architects working in the Modernist style – Eileen Gray, Lilly Reich, and Charlotte Perriand – with artist Sharon Haward…
… Interview: Homework with Sharon Haward
Curator Interview: Marit Paasche on Scandinavian textile artist Hannah Ryggen
Curator Marit Paasche is responsible for much of the revival of interest in Ryggen. We caught up with Marit to discuss Ryggen’s art, politics, and connection to the Norwegian landscape…
… Curator Interview: Marit Paasche on Scandinavian textile artist Hannah Ryggen
Curator Interview: Locating Rural Modernism with Hope Wolf
Speaking about Sussex Modernism, we caught up with Wolf her about curation, expanding the local, and the importance of ‘making’…
… Curator Interview: Locating Rural Modernism with Hope Wolf
Interview: Nnenna Okore on Fraying, Twisting, Teasing, Tying
We spoke with Nnenna Okore about the process of shredding, fraying, twisting, teasing, tying, weaving, stitching, and dyeing in her create rich, textured work…
… Interview: Nnenna Okore on Fraying, Twisting, Teasing, Tying
Interview: Seleena Laverne Daye on making zines & crafting change
Seleena Laverne Daye‘s material of choice is felt. The fuzzy texture is the perfect fabric to bring their politically, pop culture driven work to life. As a self-taught artist, Daye creates personal narratives in her art and tackles topics relating to race, class, sexuality and gender. As the co-editor (alongside Em Ledger) of Poor Lass Zine, she has provided a platform for working class voices across eight issues with a podcast and live event in the works. We caught up with Daye to ask more about her projects, the importance of skill sharing, and the ways in which working class voices can be facilitated better in the arts…
… Interview: Seleena Laverne Daye on making zines & crafting change
Interview: Memes & (Im)materiality with Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark
Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark is a multimedia digital sculptor, writer and curator based in London. She explores hybridity, form, and the reframing of black anatomy and autonomy in her work.
… Interview: Memes & (Im)materiality with Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark
Interview: Navigating the Avant-Garde & the Digital Humanities
Spanning Dada, Surrealism, Futurism a user can travel to Paris, Florence and New York as the creators think about mapping in a way that really opens out what digital humanities can do.
… Interview: Navigating the Avant-Garde & the Digital Humanities
Surreal chats with Aleksandra Kingo
Aleksandra Kingo takes hyper-real photographs that hinge on the surreal. Her influences feel like they take away from the likes of 70s fashion and New Wave cinema, with a generous helping of pop-culture in-between. Whether its commercial work, personal or editorial, Kingo’s images pop off the page (or screen). Unique, colourful and unmistakably hers, these juxtapositions will transport you. We caught up with her to find out what makes this designer tick. … Surreal chats with Aleksandra Kingo
Interview: Self Care Textiles by Olivia Domingos
Olivia Domingos combines textiles and simple messages to create an intervention…
… Interview: Self Care Textiles by Olivia Domingos
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