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 social commentaries, sensory documents that use a different lens to record the everyday and bring something different to archive study.
Top left to bottom right, Scarborough, (North Yorkshire), Brick Lane, Clapham Junction, Electric Avenue, (Brixton), Brixton Market, Leeds Market (detail), Leeds Victoria Market, Scarborough (Ginger’s Chips) , Mile End Road, Brixton street scene, Brixton train and Brick Lane Market.
These pieces and other examples of my innovative stitch work will feature in the Rogue Open Studios in Varna St, Openshaw, Manchester. 30th Sept – 1st Oct.
All welcome.
Published: 23rd June 2023
Themes: archives autobiography, colour work crafts, creative methods domestic embroidery exhibition handmade, history people place research sensory slow stitch storytelling
