The exhibition is up in Colours May Vary and has been extended so you can see it until 10 July. It’s looking great and I’m feeling very proud of what we have all achieved together. The opening night was buzzing and fun, with a lot of great feedback from the evening and from the artist […]
Everyone involved in the Threads project has worked really hard and we’ve produced some brilliant collective work. Over the past few weeks I’ve been putting everything together and working out how to show the work and the excerpts of conversation side by side in the final exhibition. I’ve been resisting the urge to just show off on […]
Rather excitingly, we have got to the stage in the project where we’re collaboratively making work for the exhibition and recording the conversations we have whilst we make that work. It’s been lovely to get know the participants who have signed up for this stage of the project a little better, and for us all […]
Since Christmas I’ve been working hard on what the exhibition will look like and how I will curate all the work that participants produce during the making sessions. At first it was very tempting to go off on wild flights of fancy about the large scale work I could make with the curve stitching technique, […]
I’ve just finished the last of the introductory curve stitching workshops. They’ve been great fun and have been full of brilliant and interesting people. I’ve now taught around 70 people the basics of the curve stitch technique and almost all of them have signed up to continue with the project, which is fantastic and REALLY […]
The posters and flyers that will publicise the upcoming introductory workshops have arrived and they are GORGEOUS. It’s easy sometimes to not take the level of care and attention you would like to at every stage of a project, so I love that we (well Lee actually) have produced something that is a work of […]
So, as I’ve mentioned before, a big part of this project is about the conversations we have when we are busy making things. I have ideas about this from my experiences of working with groups but I’m trying very hard not to prejudge, but to listen and record what actually happens. To help with the […]
So, at the point of setting up this website there’s been quite a lot of thinking, planning and organising happening already. I’ve been noticing for years how group conversations are different when we’re all working on something that occupies our hands and the bit of our brain that worries about stuff. As I pondered on […]