Using needlework to construct personal stories and a tangible record of events in a form of comic strip has a long and storied history.
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Actor Judi Dench is known for creating expletive-filled insults worked in ornate embroidery.
Showcasing Scotland’s finest handcrafts reflects the growing interest and market for embroidered textiles, as well as their increasing visibility in the arts.
Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.
Woolf’s writing illuminates the special place that sewing held in British households from the late 19th century.
Persistent challenges of the past and the present burden women with unspoken traumas, but art such as needlework is a way to break the silence.
Craft allows us to enter an immersive state of balance between skill and challenge.
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature, York St John University
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Professor of Culture and Creative Industries, Adelaide University
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Programme Director - Textiles, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
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Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, Sheffield Hallam University