STITCH TOGETHER
Galerie P+EN in Endoji, Nagoya, Japan
MARCH - MAY 2012
As well as my solo stitch work there were 4 collaborative projects with various Japanese designers and makers and one collaboration with the general public. It was such a good experience working with such brilliant people.
COLLABORATION WITH PENELOPE PLUS
Clothes by Nagai San (Galerie P+EN Owner)
left: Nagai San of Penelope Plus
right: Aki of Consent Furniture
COLLABORATION WITH CONSENT FURNITURE
COLLABORATION WITH ERI KITAYAMA
postal stitch collaboration - both of us added machine embroidery like letter correspondence
my stitches before Eri added hers ...
...and then made her beautiful bags
COLLABORATION WITH HANKACHI
bags made from recycled materials and baby clothes from fair-trade fabric
SOLO STITCHES - MAGPIE
Clothes and textile objects made from recycled materials
ALBUM, EP AND SINGLE ARTWORK
In the past 4 years I have spent a lot of time traveling between Japan, the UK and Europe. This artwork came from old paper collected in junk shops on my travels: kakegiku (painted Japanese scrolls), book covers, and old seed packets etc., combined with my dad`s old sea charts, and my clarinet scale book from school etc. I then spent hours, often whilst traveling, adding stitches to the pieces of paper, and finally hand stitched them all together.
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| from it sprung a mountain - maybe the land of my travels come together? There is a poster of this inside the album |
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| the next stage was to divide the original stitched mountain into 600 pieces. With the help of Chris from Broken Sound the pieces were made into badges for the Balloon single and the Claw and Tooth single |
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| The badges each contain original artwork along with a grid reference (29Q) and come complete with a download code for the music, animations, and an invitation to join the photo project. We`re asking people to send in a photo of the badge in a significant place/situation, so that the traveling of the 600 squares (bites of the mountain) can be traced further go here to get one and join the project Claw and Tooth single with art work and animation by Betsy Dadd  a bite the mountain photo submission
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Elephee EP
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| Hand Printed Linocut I made the stamp and Chris of Broken Sound did the print run |
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| Elephee EP - Hand Drawn Back Cover |
Moth in the Motor |
Moth In The Motor 10" Vinyl - Hand Printed Linocuts
Each sleeve different, made using linocuts from my Heads & Tails exhibition in JapanAgain, I made the stamp and Chris of Broken Sound did the print run |
Self Released Albums
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| After The Ant Fight Hand Sewn Back Cover |
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| After The Ant Fight Hand Sewn Front & Back Cover |
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| The World Outside Is In a Cupboard Drawn whilst working on the Bristol ferries, chugging in circles on a quiet winter days work |
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| Songs From The Crypt Collage & Machine Embroidery on Paper depicting the song Foroya |
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| Summer/Autumn Recordings Lino Print & Machine Stitch on Paper |
HEADS AND TAILS
Heads and Tails was an exhibition I had in Japan that later became the artwork for
The Moth in the Motor. Inspired by the array of animal characteristics and the game
consequenses where you drew a head, fold it over, pass it on, the next person draws a body,
fold it over pass it on, the next person draws the feet. I always used to play this game,
and it's also one of the ways I spent time with Ichi when we first met
and couldn't speak each other's languages.
The Moth in the Motor. Inspired by the array of animal characteristics and the game
consequenses where you drew a head, fold it over, pass it on, the next person draws a body,
fold it over pass it on, the next person draws the feet. I always used to play this game,
and it's also one of the ways I spent time with Ichi when we first met
and couldn't speak each other's languages.
THE CROW`S JOURNEY
This was an exhibition I had in Tokyo in 2008. I was motivated to make this particular work through my own lone journey of looking that I was doing in Japan at the time. I used stitch and lino print to create a story. Here are 6 of the 16 pictures from the story.
DRAWING
MAGPIE
Textiles made from recycled fabric
