Since I last wrote there has been the usual flurry of curve stitching for Christmas and Valentine’s Day. And now there’s time for thinking about and doing other projects… The Art Doctors travelled to London to take part in a conference to celebrate and evaluate the community engagement projects that took place as part of […]
It’s that familiar back to school feeling this week, with part of my household actually doing just that. So I thought I’d round up what’s been happening in the past few months and what I have planned so far for the rest of the year. The Threads Project was enormously successful, with an extended exhibition […]
After great success engaging audiences at Leeds Art Gallery, the Art Doctors (myself and Liz Stirling) were commissioned to prescribe again at the British Art Show as it tours across the country, this time to visitors at Inverleith House in Edinburgh. Next up is Norwich at the end of July and we’re just waiting to hear from […]
Everyone involved in the Threads project has worked really hard and we’ve produced some brilliant collective work. Over the past few weeks I’ve been putting everything together and working out how to show the work and the excerpts of conversation side by side in the final exhibition. I’ve been resisting the urge to just show off on […]
Over the past 6 months I’ve been working on a project called Threads – more info about the project in this previous post – and since January I’ve been working hard on what the exhibition will look like and how I will curate all the work that participants have produced during the making sessions. At first […]
The time for my annual Open House has rolled around again. It must be nearly Christmas! So join me at 21 Norfolk Gardens, Leeds, LS7 4PP for drinks and nibbles… Sat 28 Nov: 3pm until late Sun 29 Nov: 1pm-4pm 30 Nov – 23 Dec: by appointment, just drop me an email to arrange a […]
I came up with the idea for Threads earlier this year. I thought it would be great to do something collaborative with the curve stitching technique and to combine this with an exploration of what happens to conversations while groups of people are making together. I’ve been interested in this group dynamic since visiting an […]
I’m going to be dressing up, making art and being silly at The Tetley in Leeds and I would love you and your kids (if you have them) to join me! I’m part of the Joshua Tetley Birthday Party event on Saturday 18 July, where I’ll be making work with the recently formed Broken Art Collective (only […]
I’m getting very excited (and busy) planning a community project that will consist of a number of workshops where I teach people to curve stitch to a standard where they can make the work and easily talk at the same time. We will then, publicly and collaboratively, make a large-scale piece of curve stitching for exhibition […]
There’s been a lot going on since March, and not much updating (raps knuckles) I completed the map mural at St Matthew’s Primary over Easter, they’re going to use it interactively in lots of different ways. I then launched into preparations for The Giant and The Bear in June. We took the Rayon Rose caravan […]