Large Lace – Fabric
Large Lace – Fabric Year: 2012 Medium: Sculpture. Woven fabric, polyester, cardboard rolls From the performance “Large Lace”. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts. Performed at Bunyan Hall, April 2012. Dimensions: 200cm x 150cm x 20cm Large Lace: A Choreography of People and Pattern is a performance to explore the challenging leap in physical scale of […]
Installation of Lace in Place
Lace in Place. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts. May 2012- August 2012, 1St Paul’s square. Bedford. UK Site-specific installation. Nylon rope.
Lace in Place. Making sessions
Workshop/making sessions. February 2012-May 2012. These voluntary sessions took placed at Bedford Creative Arts, where I was creating the panels for the Lace in Place Installation. The panels were handmade over a period of 11 weeks by twenty-eight local people, some of them members of the Aragon Lacemakers group but half with no previous experience of lacemaking, […]
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Lace in Place
Lace in Place Year: 2012 Medium: Site-specific Installation. Nylon rope. Dimensions: Variable Location: 1St Paul’s Square. Bedford. UK. From May 2012 – February 2013. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts. Photo Credit: Richard Davies Deborah Dean’s text about this work HERE See the making of Lace in Place HERE Lace in Place is a set of […]
Lace in Place. Press Release
For Immediate Release: 23rd April 2012 Lace in Place Installation – Friday 4th May Launch – Saturday 5th May 2 – 4 pm 1 St Paul’s Square, Bedford Is this the largest hand-made lace ever created in Bedfordshire – yes! In the east of England – a resounding yes! In the United Kingdom […]
The making of Lace in Place
Conversations in Lace
Call out. February 2012 This Call out Session was the beginning of Lace in Place. We asked individuals from Bedford and surroundings to bring examples of Lace that they might treasure in their family. The Higgins Museum in Bedford brought some fabulous examples from their lace collection learning material. Many people from very different backgrounds came together […]
Large Lace: A Choreography of People and Pattern
Large Lace: A Choreography of People and Pattern Year: 2012 Medium: Collaborative performance at Bunyan Hall. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts, with the production of a large piece of woven fabric. Dimensions: 200cm x 150cm x 20cm Location: Performed at Bunyan Hall, April 2012. Commissioned by Bedford Creative Arts. Large Lace: A Choreography of People […]