Weaving a Web. Milton Keynes Gallery
Workshop. Friday 21 February. In collaboration with artist Aaron Head. Based on a series of simple weaving techniques, the kids were able to create a series of colourful abstract weaves that grew into the walls of a magical room. They were able to step inside the room as these colourful webs were spun throughout the day […]
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, […]
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 […]