"Unearth" - the Staffordshire Hoard

Inspired by the discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard and the thought of uncovering such a find, I created this felt piece Unearth. It will be shown Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th June at Reading Arts Week at the New Directions Centre, together with pieces by my EquilARTeral friends Sandy and Merete who also responded to the Staffordshire hoard - Sandy working with machine and hand embroidery, and Merete working with pieced patchwork.

Hanging in Slough

I went to Slough today to hang the Equilarteral work as part of the Ideas Bank 2010 exhibition at Slough Museum. The work is a group series with the theme 'Zoom'. We wanted to experiment and play with creating work at different scales - large, medium and small - playing with the idea of 'zooming-in' or 'zooming-out'. My series is on the left, Sandy is centre and Merete is on the right.

If you would like to view our work and that of several other local artists, the exhibit opens on 3 Feb. 2010. The Museum is open from 11am - 4pm Wed - Sat. Click here for a map to find out how to get there.

EquilARTeral blog

To celebrate our first group exhibition happening next month at Slough Museum, EquilARTeral are establishing a group blog at equilarteral.blogspot.com

Exhibition – Slough Museum

EquilARTeral group have been invited to exhibit at Ideas Bank, a visual arts exhibition organised by Slough Museum. The group have been hoping to show together at some point, and we have suddenly been given the opportunity. Sandy Snowden, Merete Hawkins and I are planning to hang our 'Zoom' series of pieces on Tuesday. The exhibition opens on Wednesday and will be up for the whole of February.

Opening up for an Open Studios in SE Berks

The area I live in is planning to hold its first ever Open Studios event on the 26th-27th September 2009. Its an event for South East Berkshire (or in other words, Bracknell, Ascot, Wokingham and more or less anywhere between but not in Reading and Windsor).

I hope to join in with my friends from my EquilARTeral textile group. Its a scary prospect but it could be really exciting too. We're waiting for more information from the organisers (the Independent Arts Forum) ... so in the meantime I'm busy trying to work on our group project 'Connected:disconnected', in the hope that I will have enough to show by September!