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Georgie Meadows : Stitched Drawings at the Wellcome Trust

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I have just come across this exhibition at the Wellcome Trust by Georgie Meadows who is a Monmouth based artist and occupational therapist. The exhibition explores personal experiences of ageing and dementia. The stitched portraits are of people she knows or has cared for. It looks really interesting. Wish I was able to get there. More info at:

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/georgie-meadows.aspx

For some reason none of the links to this exhibition from the Wellcome Collection site will work from this blog but if you paste the address or Google Georgie Meadows it comes up straightaway.

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Some Things never Change

The Knitting and Stitching Show is nearly upon us and I shall be travelling to London for the first show at Alexandra Palace next week. I am helping to install the 62 Group of Textile Artists’ ‘Package Tour’ exhibition and will also be on our Stand TGJ3 on Thursday afternoon.

My work ‘Some Things never Change’ can be seen in the exhibition. For more information about this work click on the “Some Things Never Change’ link above.

I am looking forward to seeing how fellow members of the group have risen to the challenge of fitting their work within a box of a set size. As I usually present my own work on a stretcher and sometimes frame it I decided to make my work as a hanging and roll it up to make it fit into the box.

It will be great to meet lots of new people at the show and there will be the opportunity to buy the 62 Group book, RADICAL THREAD, on the stand at a special Knitting and Stitching Show promotional price of £15 which is a saving of £4.50 on the recommended retail price. The book which celebrates our 50th Anniversary, is a great read.

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Paint • Stitch • in progress 2

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In the early morning listening to Radio 4 the news all seems to be bad. My most recent piece is called Some things never change. The need to make this work was triggered by an interview with a mother telling the reporter of the fate of her children aged 12,10 and 5 , killed by mortar fire in a war that was not hers. As a mother myself the interview deeply affected me. I have never been a particularly political person but I feel the need to speak out, in my own way, about the victims of these senseless conflicts. Born in 1913 my Dad was a child of the 1st World war, the so called the war to end war and I have used his image, along that of his siblings, as a mechanism to portray the plight of children still caught up in war in 2012. Thousands of kisses cover a concrete pillar for those who will never receive them. The images are of the work in progress.



62@50

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The 62 Group of Textile Artists, of which I am an exhibiting member, celebrate their 50th anniversary this year. Their largest exhibition of this celebratory year, 62 @50 opens tomorrow at the Holden Gallery in Manchester with the majority of the exhibiting members represented. I have had three pieces selected for the show and am looking forward with anticipation to seeing what other members have produced when I visit the gallery later this week. I am also looking forward to meeting visitors to the exhibition on 2nd and 3rd August when I will be stewarding. Find more information about this exhibition and my work for the show on my website : www.womanwithafish.com

one 3 pieces selected for 62@50

Stitch • Paint • In Progress

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 I decided I was getting a bit set in my way of working and becoming a bit formulaic! 

Time to experiment and take a slightly different direction. More of a development than a radical change but nevertheless a new challenge.

I have worked in mixed media before with varying degrees of success using photography and stitch and also weaving and stitch but this time I am combining paint with stitch.

Stitch is still very much the dominant discipline but in my new pieces, the paint , whilst bringing a new dimension is fully integrated with the stitch.

Thanks to Tilleke Schwarz I am now organised!

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During her recent visit to Grimsby for the 7 Strands Textile Symposium I had a conversation with Tilleke Schwarz about a photograph I had seen of her studio with all her threads neatly arranged in colours in separate boxes. I asked her how she had the patience to wind them all onto bobbins and she replied that she does them whilst watching the television and even though I am rather impatient when doing that sort of boring job I did think I should maybe do the same.

When I told her that my threads were jumbled up in polythene bags she seemed horrified so I resolved to get on and get organised. It did seem to be a huge task when I looked at the number of threads I seem to have accumulated but I have managed to motivate myself to do it and even though I have not yet finished the task yet I am very pleased with the result.
Here are 3 of the 8 boxes I have done so far .I’ll probably need to rearrange them when I have done them all but I am getting there!

I bought my boxes from Barnyarns of Ripon and I they were very inexpensive but they do the job perfectly. I would highly recommend doing this as I can now find the exact colour I want to use.I don’t use the thread numbers to organise them but just do them in colours by eye which is how I use them.
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Tilleke has just won 3rd prize in The Hague (NL) Summer expo at Gemeentemuseum for her piece entitled Purr Chase. This is a major show akin to our own Royal Academy Summer show 250 works of art (all techniques) were selected out of 5000 applications so my congratulations go to Tilleke for that.  

Afghanistan Inspiration European Tour is still in progress

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To see details of the tour please visit:   www.oneearthtextiles.co.uk.  
My piece  ‘A Mug for Maida ‘ can be seen next at Verona Tessile, 8 to 13 March 2011,
Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti – Volto Due Mori, 4 , Verona, Italy


I had just finished reading ‘ A Thousand Splendid Suns’ by Khaled Hosseini  when I came across the Afghanistan Inspiration project on the ‘Embroidery’ magazine website. The life of the women in Afghanistan is so difficult and so very different to my own. I knew right away I wanted to be involved in this project. The square I chose for my inspiration was stitched by Maida. I chose this square mainly because the colours and shapes are ones I would use in my own work. I have tried to echo the design of Maida’s square using the same colours and zigzag design to compliment the original shapes. I wanted to make Maida’s original piece ‘the star of the show’ by placing it as the decoration on my own vessel , a coffee mug. The resulting collaboration is a small hanging made with a mixture of hand and machine embroidery combined with applique.


At a Tangent – Textiles by The 62 Group – Gallery Oldham

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I am privileged to be a member of the 62 Group of textile artists which includes many textile artists with established international reputations. The members’ individual work explores diverse current social, domestic and personal issues.

The next 62 Group exhibition ‘At a Tangent’ runs from 22 January 2011 to 10 April 2011 at Gallery Oldham .
 This exhibition demonstrates the group’s energy and vitality, and their continuing determination to produce innovative, exciting work.

Sue Stone’s ‘From Grimsby to Gracia’ – a Weekend in Barcelona , detail shown left, was inspired by a recent visit to Barcelona, this self portrait references a cardboard cutout of Dali seen outside the Dali Museum , the Gaudi mosaics and tiles in Parc Guell , a colourful tiled floor from a neighbourhood bar and a fish from the artist’s hometown of Grimsby.

For more information go to www.womanwithafish.com

INSIGHT

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The Gate Group exhibition goes up next week at the Muriel Barker Gallery ( Upper Floor), Fishing Heritage Centre, Alexandra Dock, Grimsby, United Kingdom, DN31 1UZ, so we have been busily planning our space. Artists showing include : Patrick Holley, Anthony Housman, Nick Ellerby, Alf Ludlam,Wayne Sleeth,  Sue Stone, Sarah Webb, Letitia Thompson and Steve Upton. The exhibition features 2 pieces by textile artist Sue Stone which have just returned from the 62 Group exhibition, Bending More Lines which toured to Rijswijk in Holland and to Collins Gallery in Glasgow, UK earlier this year. The exhibition which is part of the INSIGHT Open Studios event begins on Saturday September 11 and runs until Sunday September 26.