Claire Wellesley-Smith

16th - 18th September

£390

Making Place

This three-day site-specific workshop will use the landscape around Lund Studio as inspiration for textile-based work. It will begin with a walk around the site to observe the marks and mending of the landscape. Using found marks to inspire simple mordant prints, local dyes collected around the studio, piecing and hand stitch we will explore ideas that evoke a quality or sense of place informed by this unique location. You will produce a range of textile samples that can become more resolved pieces. This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience and will include time spent both inside and outside the studio.

Light lunches and refreshments included.
Days run from 10am to 4pm (ish)

About Claire

Claire Wellesley-Smith is an artist, researcher and writer based in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Her projects are situated within arts, heritage and community wellbeing. The ability of textile to transform and connect over time informs her studio, research and curatorial practices. She has a longitudinal approach to process and materials and considers growing, making, unmaking and remaking as intrinsic to her work. Her projects are often long-term engagements alongside communities and explore how place, heritage and memory connect people to their surrounding environment.

Her books Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art (2015) and Resilient Stitch: Wellbeing and Connection in Textile Art (2021) are published by Batsford.

Teaching, visiting lectureships and curatorial projects include the British Textile Biennial, West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, Crafts Council, Selvedge, Gawthorpe Textile Collection, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Royal School of Needlework, Fibre Arts Australia, Tversted Skole, Denmark, Museum Dr Guislain, Belgium and IASPIS, Sweden.

www.clairewellesleysmith.co.uk

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