Today i have been installing my work at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with the help of Jane MacArthur of Ginko Projects and Ian of QD plastics who made some fantastic perspex boxes to house the work . The feed back from patients and staff so far has been great which is fantastic after all the time spent reserarching , designing and embroidering ..









details .

photo : shannon tofts






Great news as the 'Fish exchange project' has been selected as a winner of the Wackie Wellie Award by the RNLI. The award is presented to the team whose fundraising endeavour stood out from the rest because of its originality, creativity, innovation or artistic quality!



A new batch of fish are being created in Pittenweim as part of the Pittenweem arts festival . They will be auctioned off 9th August 2009.






just back from Collect in london where i saw some amazing work ... i loved the work of Monica Brugger and enjoyed Gallery ra from holland http://www.galerie-ra.nl/

artists objects project


I am about to head off to Cardiff and Nantgarw to work on artists object project with the Museum of Wales. I am interested in Nantgarw pottery and its social history and will develop new work for an exhibiton later in the year with two other artists .






see embroidery magazine for an article on my residency in rural Australia last year http://embroidery.embroiderersguild.com/


preview of my commission for Edinburgh Royal Infirmary..

The work will be displayed along a corridor and between each coloured landscape are dance steps allowing viewers to dance their way from location to location . The work will be installed June 2009.

http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/ourservices/artscommittee/publicart/projdevelop/arcadia/arcadia.asp

I have also been working on some earplugs for COLLECT in London and designing earplugs for snoring , arguments , whinging.

I am trying to find latin translations to reference latin plant names.

stertere: snore, to make a noise, and to stir up the earth

urgeo, urgere: threaten by proximity, press verbally

queritor, queritari: complain , complain excessively

http://www.gardenworld.co.uk/convertor.asp

COLLECT http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/whats-on/view/collect-2009

http://www.craftscotland.org/Default.aspx.LocID-cftnewk98.RefLocID-cft04e004.Lang-EN.htm





my friend J has told me off for not keeping up to date with my blog so i thought i should add something! heres a preview of one of the images for my commission for Edinburgh Royal infirmary . Landscape and memory is the theme and i spent a while in the hospital talking to patients and staff gathering visual information to work with . The work will form 5 large digital prints on sillk which will be embroidered.





a wearable recording device for capturing handwork

Elena Corchero

'HandMade is a wearable recording device that captures what one does with their hands from a first-person perspective. Recordings made with HandMade allow audience members to immerse themselves more deeply into the shoes of artists or craft-makers than is possible in typical TV documentaries. Recordings can also be keepsakes, allowing users to capture ordinary moments or special techniques together with stories that can be shared with family and friends in the far future.'

http://www.distancelab.org/projects/handmade/



'timing stitches and making time'

Innovative Craft Blog

http://www.innovativecraft.co.uk/index.php/about/ic_blog/




i have been thinking of the 'dangers of sewing and knitting' again recently and remembered the notebook of visitors personal dangers from the exhibition in 2005 so i thought i should post a few




job is sewn up


'a worker furious after being denied promotion for five years has sewn his lips together in protest. Water company labourer Jose Alberto Celis used a needle and thread to put five stitches in his lip in front of his boss in varacruz, Mexico. He claimed he had received' unfulfilled promises'.


stitched lips
http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSN2436073120071025
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3458823.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/refugee-camp-children-sew-their-lips-in-protest-664504.html

this could possibly be an addition to 'dangers of sewing and knitting' the sequel ...http://www.craftscotland.org/dangersofknittingreview.html


wish i had made this

knitted clock by Carlo and Benedetta Tamborini for Diamantini and Domeniconi This is the result of a collaboration between an industrial designer and a fashion designer.



taking time

i am working on some embroidery for a commission for Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and am becoming more and more aware of the time it takes .. recently i was involved in 'a stitch in time' at Innovative craft, Edinburgh.

http://www.innovativecraft.co.uk/index.php/events/details/matt_hulse_filmcraft_weekend_30_january_1_february_a_thinking_through_craft/ http://www.innovativecraft.co.uk/index.php/about/ic_blog_entry/no_sense_of_hurry/

during the performance, I stitched (what i thought) was a simple easy piece of stitching ( which would take no time at all ). When planning the stitching in collaboration with the One Ensemble I timed myself stitching ................i had no idea of the time it would take..........................or how strange it would be to stitch with a crowd watching me.
normally when making work it is easy to get lost in making and not be aware of the time it takes.









this link provides some interesting talk about the slow movement and craft and time taken to make
http://makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com/analogue/out-in-the-open/

http://www.innovativecraft.co.uk/index.php/about/ic_blog_entry/timing_stitches_and_making_time/


links to those involved in a stitch in time
matt hulse http://anormalboy.wordpress.com/
the one ensemble http://www.danielpadden.com/?page_id=8

guy bishop http://www.guybishop.com/

















my plastic spoons have made Vogue Sposa.. Italian wedding vogue ! funny !!











pierced plastic spoons

made on artists residency Australia 2007

http://dstitch.blogspot.com/2007_06_24_archive.html

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