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The York Exhibiiton
I was talking to the Medieval Historian this morning and saying that I seem to have had a medium-sized skip of affirmation parked outside the house for a month which has been shovelled in through...
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My latest quilt
This is my new quilt. It is a cautionary tale really. I wanted to have a second large ‘statement’ piece in the York exhibition and so I went flat out to finish it, with predictable results. I...
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Ghost dolls at Hawkwood
I have spent most of the week at Hawkwood College just outside Stroud, Gloucestershire, on a writing retreat. I’ve been to Hawkwood before and I knew that it had a real shabby chic style in the main...
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Threads of Identity V
Those of you who have been reading the blog for some time may remember that I produced a series of small pieces based on Laura Ashley fabric in a sort of memory box arrangement with other artifacts....
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New Project: Benjamin’s ‘Destructive Character’ Art Book
Sadly, I own and wear one of these… Although I haven’t been doing much stitching or anything else really recently, I have started work on thinking about a new project. I am planning a conference paper...
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Nothing Christmassy here
I am at my mother’s for Christmas and so brought some hand sewing with me to do so that we can talk as we stitch. This is a piece from the Destructive Character project I blogged about recently....
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I’m still here
I am aware that I have not posted much recently. This is because of the hailstorm of deadlines for academic pieces of work that I have had to meet – some more successfully than others. I have been...
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My latest doll
I apologise for the large gap that there has been between posts. The first reason for this is that I have been travelling a lot for the day job, but the second reason, which is more interesting, is...
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The Drag Doll Workbook
On my travels this week I have had a lot of positive feedback about the Drag Doll, so I thought you might like to see some of the pages from my workbook. I did a fair bit on separate pages and...
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(D)rag Doll 2
This is the second in my short series of (D)rag Dolls. I am very proud indeed of those brackets. They are very trendy at the moment in social studies and now I have my own. I have used Text(lies)...
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(D)rag Doll III
Some of you who read this blog regularly will know that I have been working on a project about a theory in gender studies that we are all, as women, wearing drag. This doesn’t just mean that we...
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Thinking about dolls – research in progress
Two posts today as this one is very much from the academic quilter. I thought I should leaven the lump with some pictures on a second one. This post is about the work I have been doing on dolls. As...
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Deconstructed stitching
This is the first in a series of small pieces which I intend to bind into an artists book. The book will be a bit experimental and will deal with Walter Benjamin’s very short piece of writing, ‘The...
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Goth ladybirds
I am sorry for the gap in my postings. This is because I have been marking exam scripts against the clock. At the weekend I did get time to do a few things, which I will write about...
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My new series: Walter Benjamin: The Destructive Character
One of the big projects that I have been working on this summer is an artists’ book about a particularly short article by Walter Benjamin, one of my very favourite academic writers. The article is...
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Walter Benjamin Artists’ Book continued
I am continuing my slow progress on my artists’ book about Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I think that this might eventually be the cover. This is the bottom half of the panel....
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Walter Benjamin Artist’s Book – Progress
I blogged recently about the panel to make up the cover for the Walter Benjamin ‘Destructive Character’ artist’s book. I have now finished the first half of the panel, the part based on the crazy...
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Our love is here to stay
I have finally more or less finished this artist’s book on Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I am mightily relieved as the conference paper is a week on Sunday and I have run out of...
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First of my touch pieces
I am currently working on a series of touch pieces for my talk at SCOS at the weekend. I can’t cart the book itself all the way to Poland so I am making the equivalent of a touch table. This one...
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Second of my touch pieces
When I first started the Walter Benjamin ‘Destructive Character’ piece, I thought I would do something around deconstructed stitching, which went through a bit of a vogue in the 1990s. Basically it’s...
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