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 of the project offers additional potency; a legacy of the partnership work which is shared with a global audience on the BPM website. ps://www.bronte.org.uk/contemporary-arts/sew-near-sew-far-by-lynn-setterington
Sew Near – Sew Far celebrates the famous signatures of the Brontë sisters. Local people became part of the work when they added their own sewn signatures during a series of workshops . The work was installed with the help of local organisation fields of vision and is featured in the Bronte Museum guide, a new publication by Arts and Heritage, the Daleman and the Times
Workshop in Haworth – collecting sewn signatures which will be part of the large scale installation
A visit to the Bronte Museum as part of the project with Talk – English – with a group from Bradford
Published: 10th November 2021
Themes: Bronte commission, crafts, engagement, identity, signature, text Yorkshire
