Getting ready for RISC

Plans for the exhibition are coming together... I visited the space on Tuesday and am excited about how my pieces will look. The picture doesn't really do the Cafe justice but I have got ideas on how I will hang things. Work will be going up on Monday 10th May, and will be there until early June. http://www.risc.org.uk/

Discard:salvage at RISC - Reading

Tuesday 11 May until Friday 4th June: I am exhibiting some pieces at the Global Cafe at the Reading International Solidarity Centre (RISC)
Sunday 16 May - I am running a workshop - exploring the ideas of recycling and upcycling textiles to create art. From 10am to 3pm, cost £5.
More information here or contact Shenoor at RISC  on 0118 958 6692

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.

Lighthouse extension

The exhibition at The Lighthouse in Poole is extended until 3rd January 2010.

Re:Open in Poole

My piece 'Discard/salvage part 1' was selected for the Open Exhibition! Wow! It will be at the Kube/the Lighthouse in Poole until the 18th December. More information about the venue

3-dimensional line course at West Dean College

West Dean College near Chichester - what a beautiful setting, what a messy work table, hopefully the start of some interesting ideas. I experimented with a lot of materials. Most interesting was the box. This had painted scrim, black organza and wire person shapes sandwiched in layers with copper wire and beads. The idea continued from the felt pieces I created on the theme of Personality - Connected/Disconnected. This explored the idea of personality going back in time, sometimes so visible and tangible and yet it cannot be reached.

I've booked to go again next year to work with felt with Jeanette Appleton and I can't wait.

3-dimensional line and (not so much) stitch

I've been on a 4-day course with Michael Brennand-Wood at West Dean College. It was great. I only touched a sewing machine twice and picked up a needle about three times, but I bent wire, twisted shapes, used wooden frames and well and truly took my ideas into 3-dimensions.

I was very nervous, over excited and over-awed to be working with an artist that I had seen at the Cloth & Culture Now exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich, and again at the Stroud International Textile Festival. But Michael was incredibly friendly, approachable and informative. It was great to be able to ask questions over breakfast after a talk the evening before – I never think of my questions at the right moment for Q&A.

The college was lovely. A beautiful building, landscape and gardens. Well equipped workshops and yummy food. I ate far too many puddings. I would recommend it!

Pictures coming soon, when I find my camera again.

We Felt United!

Felt – intertwined, bound together, forever as one – United .

2009 is the United Nation's International Year of Natural Fibres. On October 3rd, 2009 - feltmakers from around the globe celebrated by joining together and displaying their felt. It will be the first annual International Day of Felt. The theme was set as yellow through to red. I joined in by making felt with my children's pre-school. We made bunting to decorate their room. The children (all aged 2-4) were fascinated by the feel of the fluffy fibres and each laid out fibres across their yellow triangle of pre-felt. Then we rolled, rubbed and scrubbed with hot soapy water. Our favourite bit was to rub with a Lego Duplo brick across the net over the felt and create lots of bubbles.

All the creations will become part of an online exhibition at FeltUnited.com created by artists Elis Vermeulen (Holland) and Cynthia Reynolds (Norway) after 17th October.