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

                       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

Sew Near – Sew Far is part of Meeting Point2, a year-long project led by contemporary art agency Arts&Heritage that sees artists partner with museums to produce new artworks inspired by  their collections. The stitch-based artworks form part of Brontë200, a five-year programme celebrating the bicentenaries of the births of the Brontës. The short film […]

Published: 10th November 2021
Themes: Bronte commission, crafts, engagement, identity, signature, text 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

Scaffolding for Life, a new initiative has seen its first iteration following a successful bid as part of  the Arts Council’s, Creative Practice award. Working with Conlon construct and charity Mates in Mind, this patchwork installation on Ormond Building at Manchester Metropolitan University explores ways to destigmatise issues related to poor mental health. The phrase, […]

Published: 31st May 2021
Themes: collaborative, crafts, embroidery engagement, health and well being identity, quilt, research text

My new article connected to this project will be published in early 2021 the Journal of Arts and Community as part of the second Stitching Together special edition. This project challenges stereo types surrounding embroidery practice, working with a group of 15 boys at Burnage Academy in Manchester. It is one in a series of […]

Published: 28th January 2021
Themes: Bangladesh, collaborative, crafts, engagement, film, handmade, identity, signature, text

I am delighted to have been awarded the  2020 Textile Society critical writing award for ‘An Embroidered Elegy; Mrs Scales Autograph Cloth’. This research from the viewpoint of an embroiderer uncovered the maker and making of a 1936 stitched fundraiser made in Robin Hood’s Bay in North Yorkshire. The article is  published in the current […]

Published: 21st June 2020
Themes: autobiography, collaborative, crafts, domestic embroidery engagement, identity, signature, text Yorkshire

This new stitch-based project celebrates the women of Tameside, past and present and is launched on IWD 8th March at Portland Basin Museum in Ashton under Lyne and is on display until end May 2019. The initiative, funded by Tameside Council acknowledges 100 years since British women first gained the right to vote. The exquisite, […]

Published: 5th May 2019
Themes: collaborative, commission, engagement, handmade, identity, suffragette, sustainable Tameside, text

From July til late Sept 2016 new work can be seen in the Wit of the Stitch at Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales curated by June Hill. The exhibition includes new work –  a stitched sampler created in the car park at the Crafts Centre celebrating the work of early Welsh poet Tudur Aled.  Aled’s […]

Published: 8th October 2016
Themes: autobiography, embroidery handmade, identity, text

   The project Kotha and Kantha ran from May to July 2016 and was  supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. It brought together a group of local Bangladeshi women and the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust in Manchester Central Library. My role was to develop stitched-based responses related to the women’s lives, […]

Published: 8th July 2016
Themes: autobiography, Bangladesh, collaborative, commission, embroidery, identity, quilt,