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

Dr Lynn Setterington is known for her work with hard-to-reach groups and Safety Net is a new initiative which provides the opportunity to explore suicide rates in the Construction sector which are three times the national average of any other workplace.

Published: 10th July 2023
Themes: collaborative, construction embroidery handmade, health and well being installation mental health 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

My PhD at UCA with Professor Lesley Millar and Simon Olding explored how collaborative stitch has undisclosed benefits and also tensions. It builds on my long standing experience as an academic, artist and socially engaged practitioner. The thesis involved three case studies focused on the signature cloth – a textile made up of hand sewn […]

Published: 8th June 2023
Themes: collaborative, crafts, embroidery engagement, handmade, identity, signature,

Part of my ongoing research is exploring sustainability and finding new creative ways to repurpose and reuse debris netting to save this ubiquitous material going into yet more landfill. This involves testing different low and high tech textile methods and micro and macro scales. I have digitally quilted, hand sewn, sonically welded and used it […]

Published: 8th May 2023
Themes: colour crafts, embroidery handmade, health and well being quilt, recycle repurpose sustainable

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

This is a WWI fundraiser made in North Wales, now in Wrexham museum, North Wales Signature cloths are tactile social history documents, each one offering a wealth of sewn information. Since I began researching this subject in 2010, I have discovered many hidden away in collections around Britain. I have unearthed examples in museums including […]

Published: 17th April 2021
Themes: collaborative, crafts, domestic embroidery handmade, identity, research 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

My small hand worked quilt Teatime, on loan from the collection of Audrey Walker is on display at Manchester Art Gallery as part of trading Posts, a new exhibition looking at the role of hot drinks in trade and cultural exchange. Looking forward to getting to work on Scaffolding for Life, my latest project following […]

Published: 10th November 2019
Themes: collaborative, commission, crafts, embroidery quilt, research text