Stitching Up Oxford Rd was a commission to create a collaborative piece with and about Manchester Oxford Rd and involved working with groups and organisations based on this busy throughfare. The quilt was made from plastic bags collected on Oxford and “transformed” in workshops up and down Oxford Rd.
Published: 19th September 2011
Themes: collaborative, commission consumerism quilt recycle
A series of work and commissions made using and about a commonplace, and today political artifact, the plastic carrier bag.
Published: 30th July 2010
Themes: consumerism recycle sustainable
A visit in 1988 to the Woven Air Exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London which showcased hand embroidered Kantha quilts from Bangladesh and Bengal brought about a change in Setterington’s work and a dialogue with contemporary quiltmaking that has continued ever since.
Published: 14th July 2010
Themes: autobiography domestic embroidery kantha,
A series of pieces about home and displacement. The work evolved during the sale of a much loved childhood home, both as a comment on loss and grieving and marking the end of an era.
Published: 14th July 2010
Themes: autobiography domestic identity
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