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I’ve been working on this piece for quite a while. It’s based on a concertina book I drew last year. As you can see, it has involved a LOT of embroidery. It ties up into a neat little roll and I’m very pleased with the effect.

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NOW it feels real - like it's actually going to happen. Social media is one thing but you really can't beat publishing. My ad in @artmaguk for the show at Dundas Street Gallery in November has just dropped and I couldn't be more energised. My sincere thanks to Christie and Ian at Artmag for the advice and support.
Lovely supporting article too. Check it out in the latest edition of Artmag.
https://artmag.co.uk/magazine/artmag-439-09102026/Anatomyof-a-masterpieceM.html#page=59
Alternatively, if you click on @artmaguk there's a link to the latest edition in their bio.
There won't be a private view as such as it opens during the week when nobody's in a party-mood, but there'll be a special evening opening on Friday 27thNov between 5:30pm and 8pm with wine and snacks. All welcome but I'll be sending out invites/reminders anyway.
#artmag #contemporaryartscotland #textilesculpture #exhibitionscotland

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Come along today to the Tolbooth Gallery in Lanark to meet all six artists.

A beautiful selection of original textile art, prints and cards for sale.

Enjoy a glass of wine too 🍷
#ContemporaryTextiles #tolboothgallery
#textiletextures

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This piece, my most recent, sold today. Woo hoo! Berwick Open Studios has been going really well. If you’ve missed it this weekend, most of the venues are open again next weekend 3/4 October. You can find more details at createberwick.co.uk/berwickopenstudios

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Finally just about ready for the two weekends of Berwick Open Studios. The studio will be open from 10am to 4pm tomorrow and Sunday, and the same again next weekend, 3rd and 4th October . Hope to see lots of people.

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The @seam_collective #SeptTextileLove26 prompt today is 'Oversize'. No, I'm not going to talk about plus-sizes in fashion. I'll talk about scale and its recent importance to Textile Art.
Textile Art, as we all know has long laboured under the reluctance (to put it mildly) of Art establishment gatekeepers and galleries to recognise Textile Art as a valid medium for Fine Art. I won't get into the whys here but it's a considerable obstacle to anyone choosing Textile Art as an expression beyond craft or decorative art. In recent years there have been positive and encouraging signs of a shift in attitudes though. It's important to point out that much of this change in perception is being driven by an increase of women curators working with high-status public galleries and they deserve respect and gratitude for their battles behind the scenes.
It's also important to point out that much of this shift has happened around large, often monumental-scale work. Recent shows dedicated to Magdalena Abakanovich, Olga de Amaral, Chiharu Shiota and El Anatsui have brushed away accusations of lack of committment and of limited artistic ambitions and expression within Textile Art. Even the most delusional Art critic couldn't reasonably liquidate De Amaral's work as 'mere craft'. All very welcome but there's an elephant in the large room. Most textile art is by nature time-consuming and complex. It Isn't an ideal medium for large-scale, monumental expression, so where does that leave the majority of its exponents working at a more natural, sustainable scale without teams of assistants?
My personal reaction to the shift was to scale-up. Regardless. Although my first significant sculptural piece 'Totem' is by no means monumental in size, it is when you consider the work and time invested in it. On completion I concluded my techniques weren't sustainable at this scale. And yet, here I am working on a series of these sculptures - one of which currently stands at almost 6ft. The downside of scaling up, I've found is that it's difficult to scale back down afterwards without feeling there's a loss of ambition.
#textileart #textilesculpture #contempotaryart #fabricmanipulation

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Something I’m working on at the moment, working through ideas. Knitting/drawing with wire. #wire #knit

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I have many conversations in my head whilst working on a piece - constant, even although it sometimes feels as if I'm going round in circles, but it is part of the process to achieve the end result. #STL26Day18 prompt is Conversation for @seam_collective #SeptTextileLove26 Of course, as well as all the chattering that goes on in my own head I have a wonderful group of like minded friends and I have lovely, affirming conversations with them that are very important to my artistic life. #SeptTextileLove

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Today's watchword from @seam_collective #septembertextilelove is 'Texture'. Whoa, steady there Baby, where do I start? How do I even choose from a bazillion photos on my phone? Colour is important to me but texture is the reason I'm a textile artist first and a painter second. Paint creates the illusion of texture and depth but there's nothing - nothing like the real thing. I might have found that in sculpture perhaps but after the first fabric fairs opened up a world of tactile potential and possibility, unyieding materials that had to be forced into the semblance of fluidity and dynamism were never going to be my thaeng. Clay perhaps.... marble definitely not.
There's a particular quality of textile art that appeals to me and it's a paradox (and more than a bit messed-up if you think about it). As textile artists we work overtime (literally)to ramp up the textural contrasts and seduce the observer to reach out and touch - experience it for themselves, see if it matches how their mind imagines it feels. And then comes the 'Do not touch'. Something impish in me loves the cusp of that moment where the fingers twitch and the hand starts to reach out, only to be pulled back with a sigh. The ultimate tease.
I think I could lose my sight and hearing and still survive. Losing my sense of touch? That's another thing.
#texture #fabricmanipulation #textileart

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Work in progress. I’m busy making sample pieces for my next course in November. For details: www.berwickea.org The course is full but please sign up to the waiting list here if you’re interested as I will repeat it if there are enough people wanting to do it. @berwick_ed_association

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The Summer exhibition at the @shipoffoolsgallery in Kirkwall is drawing to a close but there's still time until Saturday morning to drop in and enjoy all the lovely work on show. It might seem early for Xmas shopping but as there won't be a Christmas show this year, this might be your first/last chance to get that unique gift for someone special. So like, whatcha waiting for?

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