Sue Lawty was Textile Artist in Residence at the V&A in 2005.
The 500th contribution to the World Beach Project has just been published! Congratulations Everybody! I wonder… is it pure coincidence that the entries attached to these...
Australia May 2008…. ...and travelling west over the Murrumbidgee River (a break from the intense textile talk in Canberra ), Chrissy (G W Bot) introduced daughter Katie and...
The previous works lead to... Lead Two Metres Square. Here are detail images of the 2m sq Lead piece from the four part work 'Call and Response: Linen, Lead, Stone, Shadow'...
Lose the coffin reference… and the above screen-shot from my computer dictionary seems quite an apposite description for the current state of affairs. Recovering from long...
I often wear blacks. I often weave whites. I am beginning to wonder if I might not be a little frightened by colour. I notice that I choose to tiptoe in from the fugitive, almost...
I like exhibitions showing a whole body of work from a single artist. I like being immersed in the unique vision. I like for that vision not to be interrupted or diluted by that...
Tapestry, tapistrye, tapesserie… beautiful words to get your tongue around and all derived from the Latin ‘tapetium’ but it was the description...
These words were written by Claudi Casanovas, the Catalonian artist working with ceramics and whose work I admire enormously. I quoted them at the beginning of my talk in York....
Working at the V&A recently, I managed to snatch a few moments to call by the new Sackler Centre to meet Dorothy Hogg, jeweller and inaugurating artist in the Museum Residency...
During the York Talk I spoke about my work and collaboration with the V&A including, of course, the World Beach Project. Many of your fabulous entries were highlighted in the...
I have been invited by the York Artworkers Association to give a talk at the Tempest Anderson Hall, York Museum. It is next Monday 3rd November at 7.30pm. The York Artworkers is...
Today is the first anniversary of our World Beach Project. Yeah! The 350th contribution (above) landed in the moderation queue on the day and superbly marks the occasion. Thank...
I am in the middle of weaving my tapestry for the V&A’s Collection. It's taking a long time! The piece will be around five feet in height. Frustratingly, there's been...
My sojourn in Australia was the result of two invitations to take up Visiting Fellowships in Canberra and Melbourne. In April and May The Australian National University in...
Towards the beginning of this web-log I wrote about close friend, Richard Kidd. I touched upon his drive in creating a fabulous studio near Newcastle, his dynamic paintings and...
I’m back! Would like to say it was yesterday, then it would look mildly impressive to be here on the case the next day. But it wasn’t. Six weeks and lots to tell. It...
'Oakura' Jerry Morris, 2008 World Beach reaches the landmark point of one hundred published entries. And in what style! Jerry Morris on North Island, NZ hits the spot with this...
One of the greatest pluses of a project such as Cloth & Culture Now is getting to meet the artists. From Finland, Japan, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia,UK; 31 of the total of 35...
I have never been good at keeping a diary. The thick ‐ lockable - keep all your secrets safe ‐ pour your heart out tomes of pre-pubescence, never made it past the...
The idea for the World Beach Project arrived in my head fully formed and in an instant. It popped up by way of responding to the response to my work using small stones, which in...
Sometimes the creativity is in the discovery, the isolating. Tiny rocky cove. Clamber or swim to. Bit secret. Hours, days months before... who knows... the head had been...
Guest post by V&A blog administrator. We are very pleased to announce that the World Beach Project webpages are now live on the V&A website and we have received our first...
The Hunting Tapestries hanging in the Long Gallery at Hardwick Hall in 1899. Image taken from ‘The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries’ by George Wingfield Digby,...
There's nothing quite like it. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Tapestry Course students in room 94, September 2007 When Room 94 closed a while ago,...
Alluding to the elusive. How many tasks do we embark on where the ‘end’… that point of resolution… is like a mirage, shimmering invitingly, only to fade as...
Seatown, Dorset. Steep stone beach, newly sea washed, clean and even. Occasional larger flat matt pale blue-grey stones scattered across shingle surface. Gathering, laying,...
Found myself travelling east at the weekend, to a wide expanse of sand just north of Liverpool. A place that I would probably never have otherwise visited, we were there to see...
Stuff goes in. Stuff comes out…. In much of our education system ‐ particularly in the over examined school context - it is often implied that art/design/creativity is...
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