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A New Home for Girl’s Day Out

A Girl’s Day Out in the East End for Hilda, Nellie and Ida
mixed media • hand and machine stitch with acrylic paint
size 128 x 102 cms

Yesterday I delivered this piece to its new home in the North East of England. I was sad to see it go so I decided to revisit how I made it, however, I am very happy that it has gone to such a good home with new owners who love it so much. It was made in 2012 for one of the 50th Anniversary exhibitions by the 62 Group of Textile Artists ’62@50′ at the Holden Gallery at Manchester School of Art.

This is my Artist Statement for that exhibition.
Exploring displacement using old family photographs, images of distant relatives I never knew, cut into to a modern day environs, Girls Day Out enquires into and questions, the sense of belonging/not belonging whilst referencing the passing of time and the transience of life itself.

Image of Grimsby St E2

3 Sisters walk down the prom in Cleethorpes

Hilda, Nellie and Ida were 3 sisters and Ida, the tall, elegant one on the right was my sister’s mother-in-law. This piece combined the then, the now and alludes to a journey in-between. The street art in the background is by an artist called Stik and was found in Grimsby St London, E2 in 2011. The images above are the original images I combined to make the work and those below are of the work in progress.

work in progress

Making Space • The 62 Group of Textile Artists

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I am delighted to be showing my work in ‘Making Space’ an exhibition by the 62 Group of Textile Artists. The exhibition at Macclesfield Silk Museum runs until 3 September 2016.

detail Tilleke Schwarz

Sumi Perera

Detail Sue Stone

Sian Martin

Shuna Rendel

Richard McVetis

Rachel Gornall

Paddy Killer

Michelle Stephens

Marilyn Rathbone

Detail Lucy Brown

Detail Louise Baldwin

Louise Baldwin

Kay Smith

Jean Draper

Jane McKeating

Jan Beaney

Jae Maries left Sue Stone right

Isobel Currie

Helen Banzhaf

Heather Belcher

Hazel Bruce

Hazel Bruce left Heather Belcher right

Making Space

foreground Julia Burrowes

Debbie Lyddon

Catherine Dormor

Caroline Bartlett

Caren Garfen

Atsuko Yamamoto

Detail of work by Ann Goddard

Retrospective • An Archive of Work 2015

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A Gallery of Work made in 2015

Most of the year 2015 was taken by the making of 63 • a Self Portrait made up of 63 images but I did manage to fit in a couple of other pieces. I began the year by making a partner piece for Portrait of a Grimsby Girl 2014 which was called Portrait of a Lincolnshire Lad a triple portrait of my Dad. It measures 76 x 55 cms and is mixed media : hand and machine stitch with paint.

Portrait of a Lincolnshire Lad 2015

I also managed a commission of Great Grimsby Ice Factory.

Great Grimsby Ice Factory 2015

About 63
63 is a self-portrait made up of 63 images, one for each year of my life so far. So why put myself through all this work, and, to be perfectly honest, the angst of self examination, a replaying of all the ups and downs of life?

There were several reasons, but the main one was that I was asked to take part in a self-portrait exhibition in 2015 and I was given a 6 metre wall to fill!

For this I had to work to a deadline and that in turn forced me to look at the way I work and helped me find a simplification of my mark-making.

I didn’t finish it in time as my thought process was slower than expected and so it was shown as work in progress. Numbers 1 to 42 were shown.

Numbers 1 to 57 were completed in 2015 and are shown below.

63:1

63:2

Self portrait age 3 2015 one of an ongoing series of self portraits

63:4

63:5

63:6

63:7

63:8

63:9