Decorating Dissidence’s Jade French and Suzanna Petot talk textiles and The Women’s Art Collection
with curator Naomi Polonsky…
Tag: Interviews
Stitching over history, memory and collective joy – Stephanie Francis-Shanahan’s living sculptures
A blazer and a skirt flutter in the wind at Pett Level beach in Hastings. On it are pictures of a man and a woman, across time, sown into the fabric and glazed with glue. Words travel through the garment in embroidery and the pink tulle skirt reads: my own darling (image right). As an image, it presents a ghostly figure, embodied by the movement in the wind and the stories woven into the textile.
… Stitching over history, memory and collective joy – Stephanie Francis-Shanahan’s living sculptures
Monster Sweaters: in conversation with Ýrúrarí
Ýrúrarí’s mostly knit-based practice see fragments of humour, body movements and the everyday meet in wool based, wearable objects.
… Monster Sweaters: in conversation with Ýrúrarí
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
Dressing the Aliens of Manila: Elisabetta Garletti in Conversation with Leeroy New
Finding out more about New’s series Aliens of Manila (2014-), a multi-disciplinary work that explores the experience of immigration and cultural displacement through costume, performance and installation.
… Dressing the Aliens of Manila: Elisabetta Garletti in Conversation with Leeroy New
Curator Interview: Tracing the Bauhaus Threads with Erica Warren
Continuing Decorating Dissidence’s exploration into the legacy of the Bauhaus weaving workshops, Suzanna Petot got in touch with Erica Warren, Associate Curator in the Department of Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago, to ask a few questions about her career and her most recent exhibition…
… Curator Interview: Tracing the Bauhaus Threads with Erica Warren
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
Nisha Ramayya on craft, creation & ritual
Nisha Ramayya is a poet and lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London. Her recent book, States of the Body Produced by Love was published by Ignota in 2019. We find out more about her process of crafting poetics, the ritualistic elements of language, play, and creation.
… Nisha Ramayya on craft, creation & ritual
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: 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
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