WWI fundraiser quilt made in North Wales, now in St Fagan’s folk museum, Cardiff. Signature Cloths and quilts have been discovered in collections around Britain since Lynn began researching into this subject in 2010. She has unearthed examples in museums ranging from Beamish in County Durham, the Quilters Guild in York, the Moravian community archive […]
Published: 17th April 2019
Themes: collaborative, crafts, domestic embroidery handmade, identity, research signature, text
This new stitch-based project celebrates the women of Tameside, past and present and is launched on IWD 8th March at Portland Basin Museum in Ashton under Lyne and is on display until end May 2019. The initiative, funded by Arts Council England, acknowledges 100 years since British women first gained the right to vote. The […]
Published: 5th March 2019
Themes: collaborative, commission, engagement, handmade, identity, suffragette, sustainable Tameside, text
Sew Near – Sew Far is part of Meeting Point2, a year-long project led by contemporary art agency Arts&Heritage that sees artists partner with museums to produce new artworks inspired by their collections. The stitch-based artworks form part of Brontë200, a five-year programme celebrating the bicentenaries of the births of the Brontës. Sew Near – […]
Published: 10th June 2018
Themes: Bronte commission, crafts, engagement, identity, signature, text Yorkshire
This project challenges stereo types surrounding embroidery, working with a group of 15 boys at Burnage Academy in Manchester. It is one in a series of initiatives to acknowledge the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah, pupil at Burnage in the 1980’s, who was killed in a racially motivated crime. The finished […]
Published: 15th April 2018
Themes: Bangladesh, collaborative, crafts, engagement, film, handmade, identity, signature, text
From July til late Sept 2016 new work can be seen in the Wit of the Stitch at Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales curated by June Hill. The exhibition includes new work – a stitched sampler created in the car park at the Crafts Centre celebrating the work of early Welsh poet Tudur Aled. Aled’s […]
Published: 8th October 2016
Themes: autobiography, embroidery handmade, identity, text
New work can be seen in two exhibitions this summer. One quilt ‘Dulwich Mum’ is on display in Making Spaces – the 62 Group Exhibition at Macclesfield Silk Museum. From 17th July several new works can also be seen in the Wit of the Stitch at Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales. Kotha and Kantha – […]
Published: 3rd October 2016
Themes: crafts, embroidery, engagement, exhibition identity, text
The project Kotha and Kantha ran from May to July 2016 and was supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. It brought together a group of local Bangladeshi women and the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust in Manchester Central Library. My role was to develop stitched-based responses related to the women’s lives, […]
Published: 8th July 2016
Themes: autobiography, Bangladesh, collaborative, commission, embroidery, identity, quilt,
The shared cloth made from the sewn names of children at Culler Middle School, Lincoln, Nebraska is complete. It evolved into a “distance” and “close” collaboration following my visits to Nebraska their last year. With help from staff and volunteers at the IQSC, we worked with three local middle schools. The schools are home to […]
Published: 11th November 2015
Themes: collaborative, embroidery, engagement, handmade, identity, signature, text
A new touring exhibition that includes my work starts in Saltaire, Yorkshire this May bank holiday weekend.
Published: 10th October 2015
Themes: autobiography, embroidery, handmade, identity, quilt,
We are holding an open studio at Rogue in Manchester July 9-11th to coincide with MIF www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk. All welcome – private view friday 9th 6-8pm My work can be seen in the Art of Bereavement at the Crafts Centre, Farnham until the end of May, an exhibition related to the conference on the 15th May. […]
Published: 30th June 2015
Themes: collaborative, embroidery, identity, quilt, sustainable text
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