When you start out on a piece of work you have to travel hopefully, believing in the idea and image you carry in your minds eye. Its often a surprise as well as a delight to find the end result is better than you imagined. This is part of the textile installation hanging in the window of the Leigh Road Baptist Church Leigh on Sea, during Leigh Art Trail. All the wonderful textile pieces that contributors made glowing like a stain glass window.
( above) PETCHA KUCHA : 3 min talk, Unit 21 November 2017
(below 4 images) Talk at S.E. Essex Embroiders Guild,
with textile contributions Oct 2017
with textile contributions Oct 2017
(above 2 images ) Next Generation Day : Chalkwall Hall : METAL July 2017
Pat Liggins is the first to contribute to the Connecting Threads Project
May 2017 : Sitting in the foyer of Leigh Community Centre to see if I can gather interest, people stop and ask questions, some take information away with them and promise to make textile pieces for the project.
October 2016 : This little textile square bought at the Knitting and Stitching show was the catalyst that started an exchange between two artists, myself and Sally Chinea.
During the course of the exchange I came across an article on the Rana Plaza disaster, which gave the project a definitive direction.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/18/rana-plaza-collapse-murder-charges-garment-factory
Sally was not able to continue being involved with the project and in order to carry the project forward I made the decision to open it up into a community based project.
During the course of the exchange I came across an article on the Rana Plaza disaster, which gave the project a definitive direction.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/18/rana-plaza-collapse-murder-charges-garment-factory
Sally was not able to continue being involved with the project and in order to carry the project forward I made the decision to open it up into a community based project.