Curator of Metalwork, Becky Knott, in conversation with award-winning silversmith Ndidi Ekubia, discussing materiality and making.
… An Interview with Silversmith Ndidi Ekubia
Category: Practice Based
Studio Visit & Interview with Theo Trotter
Lauren Bradshaw in conversation with Theo Trotter, exploring all things glitter glue, latex and embellishments.
… Studio Visit & Interview with Theo Trotter
Spotlight: Home Is A Concept
“Home Is A Concept explores homes beyond borders through capturing people’s connection with each other and nature. These photos and prints are documentations of home as where I currently live (Vermont, U.S.A.), and where I am from (Suzhou, China).
… Spotlight: Home Is A Concept
Breaking the Fall, Emily Beaney
BREAKING THE FALL
Breaking the Fall is a collaboration with my mother, Cherrie Beaney. It is an exploration of our practices of care, attending to how illness (in this case, epilepsy) impacts my mother, and how I, in turn am affected. Specifically, the concept of ‘control’ within care arose as a subject with affective resonances for each of us.
… Breaking the Fall, Emily Beaney
Ben Caro on performative masculinity, activating objects, and history
Artist and art historian Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie in conversation with artist Ben Caro.
… Ben Caro on performative masculinity, activating objects, and history
‘La trato como reina [I treat her like a queen]’, Daniela Lara-Espinoza
The messages and images embroidered in these aprons are associated with the urgent need to make the high levels of gender-based violence visible and question and contest our society’s patriarchal structure and severe social inequalities.
… ‘La trato como reina [I treat her like a queen]’, Daniela Lara-Espinoza
Anne von Freyburg: Turning wearables into art
Anne von Freyburg recycles wearable materials to refashion 17th century Dutch paintings. Her mantra is “I paint with materials” and she deftly manipulates fabrics into images by embroidering onto canvas. Celebrating embellishment as a tool of self-expression, these ‘paintings’ use the visual cues of fashion to suggest art is more than just a decorative object.
Emily Grimble, C19 Text Talk (2020)
‘C19 Text Talk’ is a hand-embroidered diary, comprised of 50 text works, made over a period of 100 days since the enforcement of the UK lockdown on the 23rd March 2020.
… Emily Grimble, C19 Text Talk (2020)
Crafting an Education: The Handmade Gift as Talisman for our Times
An exchange of gifts strikes up a conversation about showing care through the handmade object
… Crafting an Education: The Handmade Gift as Talisman for our Times
Practice-based: Aninda Varma
Tussar, Chanderi, Kanjeevaram, Bandini, Patola – these are names I would often hear around me while growing up in India, and I remember vividly the accompanied excitement that these words would conjure, and the all-consuming beauty and vibrancy that would follow.
… Practice-based: Aninda Varma
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.
Community in Clay: Rosamund Coady
As I approach 60, I feel comfortable working from ideas based on my interior perspective. The validation of others does not bother me too much – I like to be part of the conversation but otherwise I make what I feel like doing and that gives me pleasure.
… Community in Clay: Rosamund Coady
A Life Journey Through Clay
I could connect to people whom I a priori had nothing in common with, simply because we were potters. We spoke the same language, the language of clay, which went beyond the borders within which we had been born.
… A Life Journey Through Clay
Practice-Based: On Smocking, Science and Sex
Matt Gale’s work examines systems and relationships, exploring unusual or unexpected pairings of partners as a means to reference the queerness of the natural world – that actually nature is far less binary than we might imagine.
… Practice-Based: On Smocking, Science and Sex
Practice-Based: Quilting the Lesbian Archive, Sarah-Joy Ford
I stand in cold stacks. My hands run over the pale green boxes scored with pencil marks. I rummage. A syllabus, a letter and tangled endings. An under-stairs cupboard filled with pornography. S&M dyke night flyers with tea in the living room. Email trails: reaching out, and toward something…
… Practice-Based: Quilting the Lesbian Archive, Sarah-Joy Ford
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