Stitched Time opened in Folkestone on 2 March 2015 with a conversation hosted by Dover Arts Development (DAD) with all the Stitched Time artists taking part in the conversation along with other guests. The exhibition ran from 3 – 7 March in an empty shop at 2 Church Street, which was also the venue in which…
I am really pleased to announce that Stitched Time is touring to Folkestone as part of WOW (Women of the World Festival) in Folkestone from 3 – 7 March. Venue 2 Church Street. Ope Tues – Fri 12-3pm, Sat 11am – 4pm. The WOW week “celebrates the incredible achievements of women and girls and looks at the most…
The first two minutes of my video “Stitched Time (hands at work” can be viewed on vimeo by clicking this link.
Ewan Golder’s Stitched Time video which reflects the production phase of the Stitched Time project can now be viewed on Vimeo.
Originally posted on The Bell Jar:
Here’s what our education secretary said recently at a conference to promote science and technology learning. Here’s my reply. Dear Ms Morgan – I left school in 1986. I did two humanities degrees. Jobs, as you may recall, were not thick on the ground. I did a business course…
The Stitched Time exhibition opened on 14 November 2014, at the Substation project space, Limbo, Margate.
Limbo, Substation Project Space 2 Bilton Square, High Street, Margate, Kent, CT9 1EE 14 Nov-23 Nov Exhibition open Fri-Sun, 1205pm Preview Fri 14 Nov 2014, 6-9pm Stitched Time explores the act of stitching as both personal and collective metaphor. The project evolved out of a peer-to-peer materials based, experimental workshop and is a shared-making project. The stitched scrolls were made…
In connection with the Stitched Time project, which explores Art as Work and the importance of making, I am looking for contributions to a zine to accompany the related exhibition at Limbo, Margate in November, exploring the theme of [art]work, [hand]work, stitching and threads, time and also women’s roles in/at work. Contributions can be in the…
With the completion of 10 scrolls, it feels like time to reflect on that achievement. The sewing sessions have been confessional, funny, fun and surprising. We have been working with slippery thread, have occasionally dropped and lost needles between the floorboards, pulled threads out and started again, have tried hard to sew squares and straight lines and made and accepted inevitable ‘errors’.…
Today we talked about mothers, mothers-in-law, exes, current partners, houses, extensions, gardens, garages, sheds the need for a space to work in, making work and getting critical feedback dogs, cats, bunny rabbits … and stampeding cattle Claire is a rescuer of dozy wasps, baby squirrels and trapped butterflies and Ruth is planning to make fruit brandies …
There are now seven finished scrolls, each one of them different. Rosie hung one up today and suddenly we were looking at it as an object in space, and as it happens a very beautiful object, with little rips and tears and scrumpled areas, pierced holes and trailing threads.
After a short break, we started stitching the “zingy squares” again yesterday and caught up on each others’ news at the same time. The white boiler suits have been “out” into other contexts, in particular, worn as the uniform for a performance by myself and Joanna for DAD’s Send Off for Audrey Green Oakes’ homage to…
Rosie is delivering two weekend courses at Phoenix Brighton on 15-16 November 2014 and 16-17 May 2015. Click here to find out more.
After a day’s work, the tables are always slightly out of line: evidence of how each individual has adjusted them the day before.
Today three of us (me, Rosie, Claire) finished a scroll to loud clapping and expressions of joy. Funny how such a seemingly simple thing can provoke this sense of achievement – there was an urgency to finish a length today, partly because for everyone there except me it was the last day of making until September. We ummed and ahhhed…
Thread, Paper, Cloth 
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