This is curator Trevor Pitt's latest exhibition of works called WOW - The contemporary art of knit & stitch. What a fabulous exhibition it looks. Too bad it's all the way up the M6 at the Rheged Gallery, Penrith. It looks like Trevor has put together a great selection of artists and designers who have all been inspired by the Wonder of Wool. My kind of thing and I just get so excited when I see work like this.
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Sweater Companion - Celia Pym |
Celia Pym is an artist working with stitch and embroidery. She likes taking old and forgotten items like this moth eaten sweater and breathing new life into it. She says:
"To get me settled in my studio I would knit to ready my fingers and get thinking. I soon discovered that I would knit for whole afternoons."
She sounds like my kind of girl! Oh how I would love the chance to sit and knit for whole afternoons. Luxury lad, luxury!
"Now I darn and am looking for holes in people’s clothes and the stories
that accompany them; repairing these holes and returning the mended
garments. It is a way to briefly make contact with strangers. I am
interested in the spaces the body occupies, the tenderness of touch and
the ways in which we go about day to day life."
Celia Pym
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Craft Kills - Freddie Robbins |
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Knitted Homes of Crime - Freddie Robbins |
Here Freddie Robbins has knitted the homes of female killers or the houses where they committed their crimes. A really creepy concept.
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Gin Socks - Deirdre Nelson |
I like the history behind this; the idea that women used their craft skills to survive. Its another matter whether they drank the gin or perhaps were even more enterprising and sold the gin to make a profit. I definitely would have drunk it.
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