Lynn Setterington

Dr Guslain Museum, Belgium

Published: 1st August 2023
Themes: collaborative, construction crafts, embroidery engagement, exhibition health and well being identity, research sustainable text

During lockdown I began posting items from my archive on instagram including early hand worked embroideries created when I moved from Yorkshire to London in the 1980’s. These tiny artworks are fragments of life (each approx 16 x 18 cms) that depict ordinary places and people and like all of my work, they are tactile […]

Published: 23rd June 2023
Themes: archives autobiography, colour work crafts, creative methods domestic embroidery exhibition handmade, history people place research sensory slow stitch storytelling

                       This partnership project with Chrysalis Arts and the North Yorkshire County Records Office uses a different creative lens to explore archives and history. My research uncovered new information pertaining to the old toll bridge in Selby and was a creative, personal exploration of its origins […]

Published: 8th February 2023
Themes: autobiography, collaborative, commission, crafts, engagement, exhibition identity, research Yorkshire

Global Connections is my repurposed quilt for the British Textile Biennial. It was part of the 62 Group exhibition at the Whitaker Gallery, Rawtenstall running from Oct – Nov 2021. The quilt made by hand over six months incorporated cloth from over 20 countries and was made with local community groups in Rossendale and Manchester. […]

Published: 6th November 2021
Themes: crafts, embroidery engagement, exhibition global handmade, identity, quilt, recycle sustainable text

Work from Kotha and Kantha – the Bangladeshi Women’s Memoir Project, in conjunction with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Educational Trust can be seen touring local North West libraries in the spring of 2017.  https://mmuspecialcollections.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/kotha-and-kantha/ A display will be at Longsight Library 17th Feb – 8 March, then the work goes to Accrington Library – 10th […]

Published: 20th June 2017
Themes: collaborative, crafts, embroidery, engagement, exhibition handmade, quilt, Rochdale text

Until Feb 28th – A Patch work of Memories is showing in “On my Mother’s Knee” at Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor, North Wales.

Published: 2nd February 2015
Themes: collaborative, crafts, engagement, exhibition quilt, signature, text

This is the latest collaborative signature project on display at Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale until March 2014.
The blog address is http://pleasesignhere.wordpress.com

Published: 8th November 2014
Themes: collaborative, commission, engagement, exhibition identity, quilt, Rochdale signature, text Touchstones

An exhibition took place over the summer celebrating flax grown locally on waste ground in Manchester and turned into cloth and yarn. Myself and some Textiles In Practice students experimented with the material using print, knit stitch and weave processes. A number of other artists and makers are also involved. The exhibition ends in Sept, […]

Published: 3rd November 2014
Themes: collaborative, crafts, exhibition recycle sustainable

See my Remembering Emily post for background information. This cloth was part of the Wilding Festival on the 15th June at St George’s in Bloomsbury where Emily’s memorial service had been held. It was carried in the procession by her descendent and draped in the church where her coffin had stood 100 years ago. Thanks to Sarah Evans @ artwithaheart

Published: 1st October 2014
Themes: collaborative, engagement, exhibition identity, signature, text

The new bags from Ahmedabad were display at the Craft Centre in Manchester as part of the Asian Triennial in the autumn. They are made from khadi cloth, woven according to Ghandi’s principals. Khadi is a movement started by Gandhi and aimed at boycotting foreign goods and promoting Indian goods, thereby improving India’s economy.

Published: 20th December 2013
Themes: collaborative, commission, exhibition handmade, identity, India signature, sustainable text