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… Updates: Dissident Woolf, repair, and stylish homes
This September, The Women’s Art Collection opens a new exhibition: The Sleepers. Exploring the politics of rest, the collection brings together a century of works across a variety of mediums: paintings, prints and textiles. At the heart of the exhibition is a collaborative quilt, created with women from the Cambridge Women’s Resource Centre and artist Cait Moreton-Lisle, which stitches together themes of rest, resistance, and care. Below, we go behind the scenes of quiltmaking with assistant curator Laura Moseley (who also champions craft as the founder of Common Threads Press) to talk about how the quilt is both a physical symbol of comfort and a platform for collective creativity…
… Behind the Scenes: The Sleepers Quilt
This summer, Delaine Le Bas took over the vast main gallery of Glasgow’s Tramway to create an immersive, richly textured world where multiple voices and visions collide. A space of protest, peace, pain, and communion, Le Bas’ Delainia: 17071965, Unfolding challenges the narratives that underpin our society and culture, confronting viewers with questions about their own complicity in power and prejudice that oppress marginalised communities. A slogan scrawled on the gallery wall warns ‘Beware Linguistic Engineering’, a sentiment that echoes through the exhibition, as Le Bas interrogates myths, stereotypes, and the exclusionary nature of the word.
… 🪡 Unfolding, Unpicking, Repairing: an Interview with Delaine Le Bas
Three years after her first solo show at Hollybush Gardens, Ellen Lesperance returns with new work and an expanded look at the legacies of knitting and activism…
… Ellen Lesperance: Stay in the Centre of No-Man’s Land
This introduction is my open love letter to Glitter.
Guest edited by Graham Feyl.
… Issue Seventeen: All That Glitters
matt lambert on the power of disco balls
… Celestial to Terrestrial and the Trans Void: The Work of Andres Payan Estrada
Curator of Metalwork, Becky Knott, in conversation with award-winning silversmith Ndidi Ekubia, discussing materiality and making.
… An Interview with Silversmith Ndidi Ekubia
Scarlet Aylmer shares what draws her to all things shiny in this blog on glitter as a cultural and natural phenomenon.
… A Testament to Glitter
Shining a spotlight on AJ Roberts intimate and fluid beadwork, in The Human Chrysalis Project.
… Spotlight: AJ Roberts
Lauren Bradshaw in conversation with Theo Trotter, exploring all things glitter glue, latex and embellishments.
… Studio Visit & Interview with Theo Trotter
Guest edited by Janyce Denise Glasper
… Issue Sixteen: TEXT
Decorating Dissidence’s Jade French and Suzanna Petot talk textiles and The Women’s Art Collection
with curator Naomi Polonsky…
Explore the What Lies Beneath – Women, Politics, Textiles reading list compiled by Laura Moseley, founder of Common Threads Press…
… Reading List: What Lies Beneath
Guest edited by matt lambert
… Issue Fifteen: Tools, Use, Mastery
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