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craft at its best
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âž” Welcome Textiles come in a multitude of forms, and Select 2013 is delighted to present to you a flavour of what is on offer. Designers like Nadia-Anne Ricketts who is inspired by sound and music for her hand woven cloth; Philippa Brock and Helga Matos who explore and incorporate new materials and techniques into their
Stroud International Textiles is a not for profit arts
work. You can engage with them and other amazing
organization dedicated to the promotion of the arts with
speakers in Weave our one day symposium.
an emphasis on contemporary textiles and the applied
To celebrate great UK design there is a day of
arts/crafts. Select is an innovative year round
innovation and inspiration with Texprint and four brilliant
programme of exhibitions and learning experiences.
textile designers discussing their work. The Select Trail over two weekends has expanded to
Stroud International Textiles
include all craft skills and we continue to present the
t: 01453 751056 / 07767 763607
Trail in a unique publication with original photographs –
Please note the office is not open to visitors
this year taken by John Ingledew. Also look out for the
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craft at its best Saturday 27 April – Sunday 26 May Site 2013 Open Studios directory from SVA that runs
that we hope you will find easier to follow. Always
alongside the Select Trail.
keeping good design and quality in our vision we feel this
We are thrilled to be showing work selected by Contemporary Applied Arts. Big names in contemporary
new look brochure retains SIT’s hallmark of excellence. Check out our new website, www.sitselect.org,
craft exhibit at CAA and it remains a leading platform
that links to the original site giving all the latest news on
for craft makers to exhibit and profile their work.
everything happening this year.
This year we have workshops at Hawkwood and look
The Stroud Valleys are a wonderful place to be in
forward to building on that partnership in the future.
May. With the arts making headlines the town buzzes.
Select loves being at the Museum in the Park, Stroud’s
Pop into one of the many cafes to revive and restore.
flagship venue, and you will enjoy our main exhibitions
If you like to explore the countryside the renovated
and talks there.
canal offers lovely walks.
Once again you can marvel at the contribution that textiles make to advanced manufacturing, technology,
I hope you enjoy and Spring Select 2013 brings, pleasure and visual delight.
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medicine and science. Never standing still we have a new combined brochure
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âž” Message from SIT Patron Jilly Edwards This year brings us a plethora of textile delights to
activities, linking to universities, colleges and other major
dazzle our senses of sight, touch and hearing. Textiles
venues. The symposium at Gloucester Cathedral in
come in a multitude of forms, textured, smooth,
October 2012 was an outstanding event, again widening
rigid and fluid, all to excite us as we visit the festival in
the area of textiles into Architecture and Colour.
its seventh year. SIT has a yearlong programme of delights, with
The spring event attracts more and more interest and is showing textiles from international and nationally
celebrations in exhibitions, symposiums and workshops.
established and emerging talent. The sponsors and
It is with enormous excitement that this year the
volunteers are to be congratulated on their unstinting
headline exhibition at the Museum in the Park is of the
work to produce this quality of events also the Museum
tapestry weaver Hillu Liebelt and Seiko Kinoshita, a
in the Park and Stroud College for their continued
paper weaver. This exhibition offers an international
support and help.
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world and we welcome them both to exhibit with Stroud Stroud International Textiles continues to increase its
Onwards and upwards, enjoy, visit, join SIT and remember to come every year. Jilly Edwards Patron
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Saturday 27 April – Sunday 26 May (closed Mondays except Bank Holidays) Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF free admission
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Still Moments: a solo exhibition Hillu Liebelt Gallery 1, Museum in the Park The seasons with their contrasting moods have inspired this latest tapestry and installation work by Hillu Liebelt. Colour is often a starting point for a new tapestry. pale and subtle tones for a while, concentrating on form and shape. A new piece or a whole series is usually inspired by a special mood, an atmosphere or instant visual experience in nature: fog rolling down a mountain-side, frozen grasses and seed heads in winter, puddles or droplets gathering on leaves, lines and shadows drawn by light. Another starting point for Hillu’s sculptural work is often the material itself. It is the process of collecting and connecting, finding material partners, a playful act which she values and enjoys. Her work has been exhibited worldwide and featured widely in the media. A beautifully presented catalogue accompanies this exhibition which can be bought online
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or in Gallery 1. free admission
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exhibition English Summer Fields Soundscape: Sound of Weaving Seiko Kinoshita Foyer Steps, Museum in the Park Seiko Kinoshita is a Japanese textile artist who uses traditional weaving and dyeing techniques to create contemporary art work and installations. She enjoys challenging herself to use different materials such as paper, wood, plastic and metal. Incorporating modern techniques like laser cutting and sound based elements to her art work. In 2002, Seiko set up her studio at Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield, working for many national and international exhibitions and public art commissions. The work exhibited in Select has been commissioned and created for the Museum space. Seiko intends her work to present a moment of peace to each viewer who lives in our hectic world and to push the boundaries of how textiles are perceived. There is a soundscape to accompany the piece. free admission
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Top Foyer, Museum in the Park Select in association with Contemporary Applied Arts Founded in 1948 and registered a charity since 1967 Contemporary Applied Arts champion and promote only the very best applied artists in their field. Today, CAA is the premiere exhibition and retail venue for the
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Contemporary Applied Arts present the work of four makers
appreciation, education and purchase of the best British craft with more than 350 leading British based craftmakers. 2013 is Contemporary Applied Arts 65th anniversary year and they have an exciting exhibition programme planned to mark the occasion. They are moving to the cultural heart of South London, to 89 Southwark Street and a beautiful new gallery, designed in collaboration with Allies and Morrison (A&M), the award-winning architects and the original designers of the CAA Percy Street gallery. The next five years will see CAA reposition itself at the very centre of the British craft community by
Momoko Kumai: jewellery
embarking on an ambitious exhibition, scholarship and
Momoko Kumai uses tactile material
community outreach programme.
to create jewellery that evokes a
free admission
spectrum of memories and address inner landscapes. She folds, twists and rolls paper using her hands, often unconsciously. The uneven layers of texture emerge from light and shadow, conveying emotions of permanence to impermanence that reflect the ephemeral breath of nature with its fragility.
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Kyra Cane: ceramics Kyra Cane wraps bold, ostensibly
Louise Renae Anderson: woven textiles
black marks, around the porcelain
Louise’s work is concerned with
forms, animating and defining
the passage of time and how this
Mariko Sumioka: jewellery
spaces. Brushmarks fade and blur,
may be reflected and incorporated
Mariko Sumioka’s work explores
inky opaque bands change to pale
within hand woven textiles.
a connection with human bodies
fresh air blues with occasional
Louise’s subtle aesthetic is
and how the wearer and viewer
flashes of yellow. There are
explored through mark making, the
interact with each other,
remnants in these vessels of the
breakdown of regular pattern into
themselves and the objects.
vast landscapes which have always
irregularity, and the beauty of
Mariko challenges and investigates
been her inspiration.
imperfection to create calm
contemporary ideas of jewellery as
contemplative pieces. She sees
sculptural objects or body pieces.
the repetitive, rhythmical nature
She does not force people to wear
of hand weaving as a form of
a piece in a certain way,
meditation and escape from today’s fast-paced society.
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art at its origin
Select Trail Showcase Various artist makers
Mother Love Ingrid Hesling & Jenni Dutton Gallery 2, Museum in the Park Ingrid Hesling and Jenni Dutton
Museum Foyer,
present a body of work that explores
Museum in the Park
the complexities of mother/daughter
Cenozoic Jennifer Rose Norris
Selected work from the artists
relationships using traditional
Courtyard, Museum in the Park
who are opening their studios and
domestic materials and techniques
Jennifer Rose Norris works with
organising artist-led exhibitions in
applied in unexpected ways.
leather and fabrics to create unique,
the Select Trail. The Trail is open
Jenni produces large scale
stitched architectural sculptures.
over two weekends: 11 – 12 May
stitched portraits of her mother in
Her hand-snipped and manipulated
and 18 – 19 May.
Dementia Darnings. Ingrid works
pieces all explore the potential of
free admission
from memories of her childhood
form, by looking into natural and
using inherited fabrics and thread,
man-made architecture.
exploring concepts that link with
The installation is the result of an
her practice as a photographer.
originally 32m multi layered length
See talk on page 18.
of hand printed PVC’s and silks,
Please note that access to Gallery 2
now manipulated into a graduating
may be restricted on days when
sculpture. The suspension of the
talks are taking place.
piece displays its dark exotic range
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of colours and creates dramatic shadows which interact with the space and the viewer. free admission
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Courtyard, Museum in the Park Susan Early sculptural form using English/Somerset willow. free admission
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weave Philippa Brock Laura Thomas Nadia-Anne Ricketts Deirdre Wood Tim Parry-Williams Eleanor Pritchard Helga Matos
Saturday 11 May 10am – 5pm Stroud College, Stratford Road, Stroud GL5 4AH The ancient craft of weaving is in the ascendant. Weave Symposium presents wizards of design innovation. This one day symposium brings together individuals who started their careers in hand woven textiles. Some
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still weave by hand and have developed their work to embrace quality and excellence others have broadened out their work to explore new materials and innovation. The day will offer insight into new ways to see, experience and enjoy woven textiles. The speakers are leading the way in woven textiles and challenging conventional approaches to weaving incorporating exciting new materials. You will gain insight into their work, techniques, methods and innovative thinking. There will be opportunities for discussion and interaction.
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Laura Thomas
Nadia-Anne Ricketts
Philippa Brock will be talking about
Laura Thomas is an award winning
Nadia digitally translates music into
her 2D – 3D process led research
woven textile artist and designer
fabric and is currently developing the
explorations, within digital woven
specializing in producing striking
innovative textiles label BeatWoven©
jacquard textiles. Her fabrics
textile artworks for the contemporary
from her shared studio at The Cockpit
explore ‘on loom’ finishing
interior. Laura’s breadth of practice
Arts, London. This fusion of music
processes, where the fabrics
and multi-faceted approach has
and weave made possible through
require none or minimal post
made her somewhat unusual in the
digital technologies, has led to
weaving finishing. She will illustrate
woven textiles sphere. Whether it is
projects with the V&A and Microsoft
her talk using examples of projects
site-specific public art, exhibition
Research Cambridge as well as
she has worked on including:
work or interior textile design,
credits and awards including a
Self Fold paper folding series, her
underpinning all of Laura’s work is
shortlist for Digital with The Creative
Cherish series; woven sustainable
an inherent practical curiosity to
Enterprise Awards 2012, being one
long life denim concepts, and her
exploit weave principles and create
of six winners of The Clothworkers’
latest 2012 X-Form series made for
striking aesthetics for this ancient
Foundation Award 2012 and The
her solo show 2D – 3D at The
craft. Recent projects span the
Seed Fund 2012. Her fashion-led
Montreal Centre for Contemporary
disciplines in typical fashion: textile
work includes projects with musicians
textiles, which explore inherently
structures laminated in glass;
Beth Ditto and Adele. Digital textile
smart yarns and 2D – 3D woven
fabric-wrapped turned wood
designer and artist Nadia-Anne
structure interactions.
vessels; double cloth blankets and
Ricketts holds a first class BA
www.theweaveshed.org
hand woven rugs.
(Hons) from Central Saint Martin’s.
www.laurathomas.co.uk
www.nadia-anne.com
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Philippa Brock: chair
nadia-anne ricketts
speakers
laura thomas
chair
Tim Parry-Williams
Eleanor Pritchard
Deirdre Wood is a hand weaver and
Tim’s practice broadly combines
Eleanor Pritchard has a broad-
dyer, who creates abstract architectural
studio hand weaving and
ranging textiles practice,
tapestries using natural yarns. From
collaborative design for industry.
encompassing mill woven blankets,
her first exposure to traditional
Chief interests are in materials and
bespoke weave design and a wide
textiles she has been fascinated by
yarn properties, and work isn’t
range of commissioned projects.
the strip-woven technique. In 1996,
immediately concerned with
All of her work is underpinned by
she travelled to Mali, West Africa,
obvious structure, pattern or even
an awareness of her role as a
to study the beautiful and exciting
colour, but explores the regularly
contemporary designer within a
Bogolanfini and indigo fabrics
unseen aspects of design through
historical context. Her designs
produced by the Bamana and
the deeper values and potentials of
often reference traditional British
Dogontribes people. Since then, her
materials, construction and finish.
textile techniques. Eleanor’s
textiles have been made from straight
Reflecting on developments in a
commissioned work includes a
strips of cloth woven on her
number of sustained projects, this
large scale installation for Orleans
countermarch loom. More recently,
talk will look at connectivity
House, vestment fabrics for Ely
she has developed a completely
between research subjects and
Cathedral and woven lengths for
new approach to weaving that uses
contexts, making particular
Christian Lacroix Couture.
the contrasting properties of linen
reference to recent field-study of
www.eleanorpritchard.com
and silk to create rings and discs.
vernacular textile-fibre production
Although the cloth is woven straight,
traditions of central Japan.
it becomes dramatically curved
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tim parry-williams
deirdre wood
when cut from the loom and finished.
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Helga Matos is a textile designer
Tickets
specialising in woven textiles.
Full price £70
With an extremely creative mind and
Concessions full time students,
talent, Helga won several awards
unemployed & Friends of SIT £40
and successfully completed her
Early Bird Tickets: Full price £60; Students £35
Master’s degree at the Royal College
Early Bird Tickets end on 30 March
of Art in 2008. She uses weaving as
This includes a light lunch and tea/coffee on arrival.
a way of constructing surfaces/ textiles, by combining intricate
A bookshop run by Yellow-Lighted Books will
patterns with a variety of materials.
be present.
that evoke curiosity, surprise and
Booking
tactile interactions with the users.
To book a ticket please go to www.sitselect.org and
Her work is used in fashion and
navigate to the symposium page where you will find full
interior products and also sold as
details on how to book online or if you prefer you can
unique art works.
send a cheque to the SIT office. We cannot accept card payments over the phone. You can also book through the Stroud Tourist Information Centre t: 01453 760960
Doors will open at 9am for registration. Symposium will start at 10am. You will be given a schedule when you book. SIT is grateful to South Gloucestershire & Stroud College Art & Media Department for their support in allowing the use of their premises and facilities.
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Her aim is always to create textiles
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far right: tim parry-williams
Helga Matos
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Suited Brunel Broderers Tuesday 30 April – Sunday 19 May Tuesday – Saturday 10.30am – 4.30pm Sunday 1.30pm – 4.30pm (closed Mondays) Meet the Artists: Saturday 11 May 2pm – 4pm Suited is open for the Select Trail weekends. Lansdown Hall & Gallery, Lansdown, Stroud GL5 1BB
photographs: john ingledew/SIT
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An exhibition by the Brunel Broderers
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Hobbs abandoned tailors’ shop, full of dusty neglected fabric and a multitude of haberdashery items, provides the backdrop for Suited. Exploring the nature of the fabric and the potential of tailoring techniques, the Brunel Broderers delved into this pile of remnants to create work relevant to modern lives. Finding a way to give a new context to the materials and allow the individual voice to speak proved to be quite a challenge – one that has resulted in exciting new work, exploring the potential of the fabric and haberdashery items to their uttermost limits! For further information: www.brunelbroderers.blogspot.com/ free admission
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Meet the Artists
Saturday 27 April – 26 May
Sunday 12 May 11am – 6pm
New Works Fashion Students at Stroud College Campus
Monday – Friday 8.30am – 4pm
Saturday 18 May 11am – 6pm
Friday 10 May – Saturday 11 May
closed weekends & Bank Holidays
Sunday 19 May 11am – 6pm
10am – 5pm
Ecotricity, Unicorn House,
Sticky Paper Studio,
Textiles take over the ground floor
7 Russell Street, Stroud GL5 3AX
Lansdown Walk, Lansdown Road,
of the South Gloucestershire &
The Smell of Space is a series of
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Stroud College Campus for two
images taken by Bath based artist
Sticky Paper Studio is a group of
days to coincide with the Weave
Fiona Haines. The photographs
six artists working in paper. Their
Symposium that is being held at
investigate the dialogue of the
inspirations and enthusiasms are
the college. A small exhibition of
enduring qualities of space
derived mainly from fashion,
budding textile design students’
between past and future within
textiles, ornament and anything
work from the College, at the
empty architectural spaces.
else which takes their fancy. They
Stroud Campus. Working in a
free admission
create two and three dimensional
variety of mediums; prints, stitch,
collage, ripping, tearing, cutting
knit and mixed media this concise
manipulating and sticking. They
exhibition will showcase samples of
find inspiration from working as part
development and final work by
of a group.
students on the Foundation Diploma
www.stickypaperstudio.co.uk
in Art and Design and the second
free admission
year Extended Diploma courses.
Saturday 11 May 11am – 6pm
free admission
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The Smell of Space Fiona Haines
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Milled Sarah Brooker
Sarah is a resident maker at Brewery Arts in Cirencester,
Monday 20 May – Monday 1 July
garments. The transient, unpredictable nature of felt
Monday – Saturday 8am – 4pm
making enables Sarah to develop ways of mark making
Hobbs House Bakery Cafe, 4 George Street,
with fibres and stitch – always slightly out of reach, yet a
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very immediate and tactile medium, it captures the
an exhibition of hand rolled felts
essence of colour and line essential to work with
free admission
imagery of a quite domestic nature. This small scale
where she creates hand rolled felt wall pieces and some
show is inspired somewhat by the range of textures and forms created within this environment. The alchemy of felt making is akin to making and cooking – 'drawing with fleece’, shrinking, kneading and stitching, seemingly milling things into place. (Milling is a felting term for the final stages of rolling the surface.) t: 01453 839396; 07967 158071
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talk in conversation: does craft matter? what role can new technologies play in the development of craft?
Mother Love Ingrid Hesling & Jenni Dutton iIllustrated talk Saturday 27 April 10.30am
Deirdre Figueiredo Beatrice Mayfield Katie Bunnell
Gallery 2, Museum in the Park
talk & discussion
Ingrid Hesling and Jenni Dutton
Saturday 27 April 11.30 am
talking about their work that explores
Gallery 2, Museum in the Park
the complexities of mother/
Three speakers who represent craft and the power of
daughter relationships using
making, who each pioneer inspiring forward looking
traditional domestic materials and
ways to bring the art of making to the public and
techniques applied in unexpected
encourage fresh ways for makers to develop their skills
ways. This talk accompanies the
and creative practice. Join us for an informal session
exhibition in Gallery 2.
of exploratory discussion.
Tickets: £4
Tickets: £8 (SIT & Museum Friends £6)
(SIT & Museum Friends £3)
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Gallery 2, Museum in the Park Stratford Park Stroud GL5 4AF
Beatrice Mayfield
Katie Bunnell
Deirdre Figueiredo MBE is currently
Beatrice has a broad background
Katie Bunnell is a ceramicist.
the Director of Craftspace which
in working with contemporary craft
A researcher and leader of
works in partnership with artists,
makers and visual artists. She
Autonomatic, the 3D Digital
audiences, venues and a diverse
currently manages the Maker
Production research group at
range of organisations to push
Development Team at the Crafts
Falmouth University.
boundaries and perceptions around
Council. The team delivers Creative
contemporary crafts practice, touring
Professional Development for
2003 and has since established a
exhibitions and public engagement
makers at all stages of their career
reputation for practice-centred
Deirdre has worked as a curator
Autonomatic was founded in
through the Collective programme.
research that explores the
and manager in the field of visual
This includes Hothouse, start-up
relationships between digital
arts, craft and museums over
support for emerging makers;
technologies and craft practices.
20 years and has developed
Portfolio supporting and enabling
The group includes practitioner-
particular expertise in diversity,
collaborative working with other
researchers working in the fields of
social engagement and audience
sectors; networking events
ceramics, glass, textiles, metals,
development issues. In a wider role
through Craft Rally and Injection,
wood amongst other media. The
she has contributed to a range of
business development for
group’s most recent work involves
advisory panels, boards, and policy
established practices.
working collaboratively with
steering groups including Arts
Originally trained in textiles,
technologists and hackers to create
Council England, West Midlands
graduating from Chelsea College of
their own computer numerically
Regional Council Member, Creative
Art & Design in the early 90s, she
controlled machines and to craft
and Cultural Skills Council advisory
has undertaken private
digital/physical interfaces.
group and Turning Point West
commissions for a range of clients
Katie looks beyond the
Midlands steering group. Trustee of
for interior art works and bespoke
production to explore new
The Crafts Study Centre, Farnham.
pieces for fashion.
innovations and their engagement
www.craftspace.co.uk
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Deirdre Figueiredo
with new technologies. www.autonomatic.org.uk/team/kb/ index.html
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hillu liebelt: in conversation & gallery tours In Conversation: Mary Schoeser & Hillu Liebelt
Still Moments: Gallery Tour with lead artist Hillu Liebelt
illustrated talk
tour with commentary
Saturday 27 April 1.30pm
Saturday 27 April 3pm & 5pm
Gallery 2, Museum in The Park
Gallery 1, Museum in The Park
Lead artist, Hillu Liebelt will discuss her work with Mary
Lead artist, Hillu Liebelt will talk to you about her work
Schoeser. Mary Schoeser is a specialist author in
while you walk around the exhibition. Enjoy hearing
textiles, and has several books published that include
about the inspiration behind her tapestries and
World Textiles and Silk. She has written an introduction
installations and the tapestry skills she uses to create
on Hillu’s work in the catalogue for Still Moments.
these stunning textiles. Places are limited so please
Tickets: £6 (SIT & Museum
book in advance.
Friends £5)
free admission
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The Witchcraft Series & the Power of Slow Anne Jackson
A Various Life and the Nature of Mending Jacy Wall
illustrated talk
illustrated talk
Saturday 27 April 3pm
Saturday 27 April 4.30pm
Gallery 2, Museum in the Park
Gallery 2, Museum in the Park
Anne Jackson’s knotted tapestries are exhibited in the
Jacy Wall’s practice as a tapestry weaver spans some
UK, the USA, Australia and Europe. Her current project
thirty years. It has been the one constant in a life that
is The Witchcraft Series. Through it she explores the
has also embraced printmaking, arts in healthcare, arts
history of witch-persecution in Europe, and the
in the landscape, and a variety of other asides. Whilst
metaphors that surround the idea of ‘the witch’.
passionately committed to the process of weaving, Jacy
In speaking about her own work, she will explore the
has always sought subtle subversions of traditional
development of woven tapestry as a powerful,
techniques, her non-figurative themes always striving
thoughtful, contemporary medium.
for simplicity and spontaneity. She has exhibited widely.
Anne has published reviews in Textile: The Journal of
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Jacy will talk about her textile work and the
Cloth and Culture, and her work is featured in two
development of her obsession with mending.
recent books: Tapestry: A Woven Narrative (Black Dog)
www.natureofmending.co.uk
and Textiles: The Art of Mankind (by Mary Schoeser;
Tickets: £5 (SIT & Museum
Thames & Hudson).
Friends £3)
Anne Jackson lives and has her studio in rural Mid-Devon. www.annejackson.co.uk Tickets: £5 (SIT & Museum Friends £4.50)
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professionals brings particular benefits, not least fresh innovative thinking. Creative people bring skills and flexible thinking plus an element of risk taking to scientific thinking and technology. The following talks celebrate and show how creative thinking can challenge conventional thinking and discover new directions. Tickets for both talks: £10 Tickets for individual talks as listed
prof julian ellis
Collaboration with other creative
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inspiration through collaboration Embroidery for Technical Textiles Professor Julian Ellis OBE illustrated talk Sunday 28 April 2pm Gallery 2, Museum in the Park Julian Ellis OBE will be talking about the adaptation of embroidery techniques for technical applications such as in reinforcing plastics for aerospace and automotive applications, the development and use of embroidery in surgical implants for orthopaedic and spinal repairs, and the possible future industrial uses for textile and embroidery. Julian Ellis is a Fellow of the Textile Institute, an honorary professor in the faculty of engineering at the University of Nottingham. He has spent much of his career in research and development, beginning with Sponsored by Renishaw plc
the Courtaulds Research Division in Coventry. He set up Ellis Developments in 1985, to develop a series of artificial ligaments that became a best selling product and benefitted over 120,000 patients across Europe. www.ellisdev.co.uk Tickets: £6 (SIT & Museum Friends £5)
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sKINship Rhian Solomon and Dr Sarah Pape illustrated talk Sunday 28 April 3.30pm Gallery 2, Museum in the Park sKINship is a research program and professional network founded by visual artist, Rhian Solomon. Its aim is to promote cross disciplinary collaborations between Dr Sarah A. Pape MB. ChB.,
Surgery and Pattern Cutting for Fashion. By exploring
FRCSEd(Plast), MA Clin Ed
points of commonality and contrast between these
Sarah Pape is a Consultant Plastic
subjects a unique dialogue is being developed, informing
Surgeon, working in Newcastle
new practices in the design and planning of surgical procedures and garments. Key collaborators in this project include Consultant Plastic Surgeon Sarah Pape, Womenswear Designer Juliana Sissons, The British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons and Tailors of Savile Row Henry Poole. As an artist and researcher, she has exhibited and lectured above: rhian solomon
nationally on collaborative thinking and working. Inspiration for her work is found in the parallels between skin and cloth, combining material exploration with socially engaged study www.skinship.co.uk www.rhiansolomon.co.uk Tickets: £8 (SIT & Museum Friends £6)
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Visual Arts and Science – with a current focus on Plastic
upon Tyne. Following general surgery training in Leeds, she began her plastic surgery career in Bradford. This was followed by posts in Stoke on Trent, University College Hospital London, Liverpool and Newcastle upon Tyne. Sarah was awarded the Specialist Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1994. Her special interests are burns and laser surgery. In addition to her clinical work, Sarah is the Clinical Lead for a national e-learning project for plastic surgery (e-LPRAS) and a consultant to the sKINship project.
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in conversation: a day of textile innovation and design excellence Lauren Bowker
Gallery 2, Museum in the Park
The Unseen
Texprint provides exceptional access to the best of
A Textiles MA graduate of the Royal
British textile design talent – connecting industry to
College of Art, London, Lauren
selected graduate designers just emerging from college
Bowker has a unique approach to
or university, and to Texprint alumni, many of whom now
textiles that fuses creativity with
enjoy high profile creative roles within the international
scientific curiosity. She is inspired
textile, fashion and interior design industries. Many Texprint alumni go on to enjoy high profile creative roles within major companies worldwide, or indeed set up their own businesses. www.texprint.org.uk
Barbara Kennington Lauren Bowker Lisa Bloomer Tickets: £10 (SIT & Museum Friends £8)
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by ‘Making the invisible, visible’. In her recent work she uses thermal chromatic dyes to create experimental textiles and installations. Multi award winning Alchemist Lauren Bowker uses design merged with science to provide real solutions to real problems. Creating bold visions underpinned by elegant design.
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Lauren is a maverick who works at the intersection of textiles, art and science. Her practice is a world away
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Barbara Kennington: introduction 1pm
from the conventional route of
Barbara Kennington brings to Texprint her considerable
creating patterned fabrics. Her vision
international experience, as a designer and trend
lies in the exciting possibilities
specialist, but also as a strong advocate of the British
opened up by advances in printing
textile industry and the outstanding design schools and
inks, new technology and techniques.
universities that support it. The late 70s saw Barbara
The technologies behind the ink
setting up her own fashion design label, Lumiere,
has the potential to break grounds
becoming part of London’s early 80s cutting-edge ‘new
in the area of healthcare, sports and
wave’ of young designers, and developing innovative
wearable sensors.
textile design out of Japan, Hong Kong and India.
www.artsthread.com/p/phnx
Andreea Mandrescu
Lynn Tandler
Print Matters
Inlays
Taking a Blacksmith’s approach
Lisa Bloomer is passionate about
3pm
towards Textiles
colour and sustainable practices,
Andreea’s work aims to create a
4.15pm
and is continually exploring new
new tactile and visual experience
Lynn’s latest fabric collection is the
ways to succeed in her ‘fight against
that brings a new perspective to the
product of an investigative journey
the geometric’. Spontaneity is
traditional crafts by implementing
into the juxtaposition between
tangible in all her designs, she uses
them into textile design. The
extremes – challenging the manner
colour in a fresh and dynamic way
practice is based on research of
in which opposites integrate, creating
and achieves many unique effects
marquetry and inlay crafts, forming
new functionalities, perceptions
by first hand painting on the warp.
a series of fluid soft surfaces,
and values of aesthetics. The
Lisa is an independent textile
digitally printed, inlaid and overlaid
inspiration for these ‘hybrid quality’
designer, who uses weave, dye, print
on fabrics using different kinds of
textiles was the intrinsic quality and
and freehand techniques to create
rubber, faux fur, veneers and
traditional processes within both
sustainably-produced, bespoke
leather. These surfaces can be used
metals and textiles – a fundamental
fabrics for interiors and fashion.
in fashion, accessories and interiors.
curiosity for the nature in which
www.andreeamandrescu.com
different approaches towards craft
combines digital technology with a
Tickets: £6 (SIT & Museum
can reveal new potential within a
range of traditional craft skills. Her
Friends £5)
material. The approach to designing
Lisa’s work is process led and
these textiles has been experimental
structure combines complex
and designed to be applicable both
cross-dyeing processes with spontaneous mark-making to create textiles with visually complex
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exploration of colour, material and
to body and space. www.lynntandler.com Tickets: £6 (SIT & Museum Friends £5)
www.artsthread.com/p/lisabloomer
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and irregular surfaces, for which she has won a number of award.
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Stitch & Stone Dr Brenda King illustrated talk
Fashion Illustration: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Tony Glenville
Sunday 5 May 2.30pm
illustrated talk
Gallery 2, Museum in the Park
Saturday 25 May 1pm
The Leek Embroidery Society formed
Gallery 2, Museum in the Park
close partnerships with exceptional
The eye and the hand with simply a pen or pencil and a
architects who produced distinctive
sheet of blank paper can often tell us more in a few lines
textile designs. Their collaborations
that the most complex photographic image.
produced glorious needlework which
Since the earliest days there has been a desire to
established the society’s reputation.
record the modes of the day. The myriad styles which
Many of these embroideries are still
record the history of fashion through to the 21st century
in the churches for which they were
still enchant the eye and are eagerly collected across
designed. The Society also stitched
the world with their range of styles and end uses. This
schemes by Arts and Crafts
talk is to place the artists firmly centre stage. Tony Glenville is Creative Director of the School of
designers, influenced by Indian patterns and historic textiles. Their
Media and Communications, London College of
facsimile Bayeux Tapestry was a
Fashion. He has worked extensively as a consultant and
remarkable project that is still an
writer, collaborating with Vogue Nippon, Vogue
object of great interest. Author and
Australia, Harpers Bazaar Australia, The Evening
curator Dr.Brenda King will present
Standard and the Independent. His published writing includes Shoes in The Cutting
a new body of research which firmly
Edge: 50 Years of British Fashion (V&A, 1996) and Top
Crafts history.
to Toe: a Guide to Grooming the Modern Male (Sterling,
Friends £4.50)
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Tickets: £5 (SIT & Museum
tony glenville
places this society in Arts and
2006). A fashion writer with a wide range of interests, Glenville’s career has taken him behind the scenes and to fittings and ateliers across the globe including Christian Lacroix, Bruce Oldfield, Valentino, Adrienne Vittadini and Azzedine Alaia. Tickets: £7 (SIT & Museum Friends £5)
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2 day workshop Saturday 27 April & Sunday 28 April 10am – 5pm
sarah campbell-cole
Hawkwood, Painswick Old Road, Stroud GL6 7QW in association with Hawkwood College Hawkwood College is the perfect venue to discover how
50 Years of Passion in Textiles Sarah Campbell
photography can be used as a tool to visually explore
illustrated talk
your relationship to it from a textural point of view. On
Saturday 25 May 2.30 pm
the workshop you will look at colour, texture and form,
Gallery 2, Museum in the Park
our impact on the land, the big picture and the detail,
Internationally acclaimed textile designer Sarah Campbell
and our spiritual connection with the land. You will have
has spent most of her life painting patterns. Starting
the opportunity to bring your favorite textiles and
with her sister Susan Collier in the 1960s, they
explore your relationship with them in nature. If you are
co-founded the influential textile design partnership
an artist/maker, you will have the opportunity to
Collier Campbell in 1980, producing iconic designs,
discover new ways of capturing your work using
Susan and Sarah painted textile patterns for
the natural and built environment, mapping the land and
photography. The workshop will be kept simple, playful
international clients including Yves Saint Laurent,
and fun. Bring a digital camera and outdoor clothing
Liberty, Habitat, Cacharel and many others in the UK.
and footwear. Your physical comfort will be of upmost
Famed for the originality of the fresh and vivid variety
importance to enjoying the weekend.
of their prints, fifty years of Susan and Sarah’s
“I work with you to gain a clear vision of who you are
groundbreaking work was celebrated in a
and what you do, and to represent this visually through
commemorative exhibition at the National Theatre,
photography.”
London, during the summer of 2011.
Suitable for all levels and experience.
Recent talks include the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Fashion & Textile Museum. She has run
Fee: £95 includes morning refreshments Bring lunch to share
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Colour, Texture and Form in Photography Ruth Davey
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workshops at both the V&A and the FTM and spends regular time in a local secondary school with the 6th form fashion and textile students. In December 2012 Ilex Press published a beautiful book celebrating the sisters’ work over 50 years: The Collier Campbell Archive: 50 years of passion in pattern by Emma Shackleton. Tickets: £8 (SIT & Museum Friends £6)
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Trace & Echo Gizella Warburton Saturday 27 April 10am – 5pm & Sunday 28 April 10am – 4.30pm 2 day workshop Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road,
helen lomberg
Stroud GL6 7QW Be inspired and enjoy a tactile journey of discovery
Traditional Willow Baskets Helen Lomberg
experimenting with surface, colour, line and composition
2 day workshop
through mark making, collage and stitch.
Saturday 11 May 10am – 4.30pm &
in association with Hawkwood College
The sessions will offer possibilities for all levels and
Sunday 12 May 10am – 4pm
will include the opportunity to explore personal creativity
Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road,
and be supported and mentored by a leading textile
Stroud GL6 7QW
artist. Activities are designed to encourage participants
in association with Hawkwood College
to observe detail, challenge usual approaches, and be
Gloucestershire born Helen Lomberg has been ‘fiddling
aware of their creative responses; developing the
with twigs’ for over 20 years. She grows a substantial
confidence to take risks with their ideas and nurture
amount of willow at home, and also hazel, snowberry
their own artistic voice.
and dogwood which she uses in her work.
Tickets: £110 this includes a charge for a few
Learn the techniques used to make beautiful
additional materials supplied by Gizella and a
traditional baskets with experienced Stroud based
delicious homemade organic light lunch each day.
basket maker and willow sculptor Helen Lomberg in the
You will be given a materials list when booking
stunning setting of Hawkwood College. You will make a basket or willow container of your choice to take home. Enjoy the irresistible feel and scent of willow and other weaving materials and to learn one of our oldest skills means this is a workshop not to be missed. All materials provided. Tickets: £70 includes a delicious light homemade organic lunch each day
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Saturday 18 May 10am – 4.30pm & Sunday 19 May 11am – 4pm Gallery 2, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park,
“I love working with paper! It’s versatile, accessible and
Painted Pomp: Art and Fashion in the Age of Shakespeare
has a magical transformative quality. I am also passionate
study afternoon outing
about manual processes, and as a former textile designer,
Thursday 2 May 1pm departure
love anything tactile with strong composition and
Holburne Museum, Bath
considered colour. Over the course of this weekend,
One of the most important groups of Jacobean portraits
I’d like to show you how your own simple observational
forms the centrepiece of this exceptional new exhibition.
drawings can be turned into wonderful paper silhouettes.
Nine sumptuous portraits by William Larkin, together with
The aim will be to use these to create and illustrate a
rare survivals of Jacobean dress and live interpretation
simple story in the form of a handmade artist’s book.”
reveal the heights of art and fashion 400 years ago.
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Eileen White is a craft-based visual artist. Her studio
Breathtaking costumes, recorded by the artist in
practice includes making site-specific installations,
painstaking detail, reflect the huge wealth and status of
producing design solutions for location and client-
the sitters. The exhibition will bring the paintings together
focused commissions and working in educational
with some exceptionally fine and rare examples of
contexts with schools, communities, professionals and
surviving Jacobean costume similar to those depicted in
the public.
the portraits. You will have a private view, and a guided
Tickets: £90 includes basic materials supplied by artist
tour by the Curator of the exhibition and a session with
and teas & coffee. A materials list will be sent on booking
the costume expert. You can end the afternoon with tea
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2 day workshop
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Playing with Paper Eileen White
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in the garden café. Tickets: £25 inclusive of coach travel from Stroud (depart 1pm Leisure Centre GL5 4AF, return 6.30pm) Organised by Friends of Museum in the Park To Book: Make Cheques payable to: The Friends of Stroud District Museum. Send to: Juliet Shipman, Rose Cottage, The Street, Eastcombe, Gloucestershire GL67DN including full name, address, phone number and enclose a SAE or email address. email: julietshipman@hotmail.com t: 01452 770263
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World Textiles Weekend 2013
Bisley Village Hall, Manor Road, Nr Stroud GL6 7BQ
Wonderful World textiles include: The African Fabric Shop - Textiles, beads, baskets; handmade, handwoven Añañuca - Handwoven rugs, throws and scarves from Chile Beyond France - Lovely vintage handspun Hungarian linen Changs - Cotton indigo from South West China and Northern Thailand, Linda Clift & Lizzi Drake - Textiles, costumes and trimmings from England and France Martin Conlan of Slow Loris - Tribal textiles from Southwest China. Olivia Dell - Wearable Central Asian textiles Jennifer Evans - Decorative textiles and jewellery sourced in India Lucy Farmer of Zeitgeist - Fantastic Indian textiles, antique, vintage and contemporary John Gillow - African, Indian and South East Asian textiles Dorothy Reglar - beautiful handmade clothes using handwoven silk and cotton from Laos
Directions to Bisley From M4 - exit J15 to Cirencester on A419, then follow road to Stroud for 8miles and turn right to Bisley From M5 - exit J13 to Stroud, towards Cirencester then turn left for Bisley after Waitrose roundabout, turn 1st right into Field Road, up passed the hospital then turn right into Bisley Road.
Admission £1.50, children under 15 free Delicious food by Woodruffs of Stroud Contact/further details: bailey@baileycurtis.com/www.stroudinternationaltextiles.org.uk
World Textile Fair Saturday 25 May 10am – 5pm Sunday 26 May 10am – 4pm Bisley WI Hall, Manor Road, nr Lypiatt, Bisley GL6 7BQ Bringing you the ever glorious and wonderful World Textile Fair with textiles, jewellery, baskets, haberdashery and all manner of fabulous things collected from all around the world by the travellers and collectors who make up this year’s World Textile Fair. Indigo from South West China, African and Indian cloth and clothes, rugs and textiles from Chile, beads and baskets from Africa, linen from Hungary and France, vintage and contemporary textiles from SE Asia – a feast of colour and delight. Delicious organic Café run by Woodruffs Stroud. Entrance: £1.50 accompanied children under 15 free There is limited parking in the village. Please park with consideration.
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event
continue to play a part in our calendar. Our Spring
2013, the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen’s 80th
Show at Tetbury has established itself as one of the
anniversary, looks to be one of our most exciting and
most attractive and inspiring craft events. From
challenging years to date.
Wednesday 8 to Sunday 12 May the historic market
Over the summer the Guild will be moving its base
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from Painswick to Cheltenham. The Guild at 51, our
Exhibitions throughout the county and further afield
house will provide an opportunity to see and buy from nearly 30 contemporary designer-makers.
new retail outlet, will form part of the extended Art
Our Summer Show at Painswick from 15 to 18
Gallery & Museum complex in Cheltenham’s town
August will provide a celebration of the Guild’s 80th
centre. It will provide a stunning showcase for craftwork
anniversary with a look back at the work of some of the
by Guild members and invited makers from Britain and
Guild’s founders and internationally renowned members
abroad, providing an opportunity to see, buy and
such as Michael Cardew, Peter Waals, Phyllis Barron
commission some of the best work by contemporary
and Theo Moorman. Looking forward, current
designer-makers. The Guild at 51 will be found at 51
members will show their most recent work and be
Clarence Street, only minutes away from Cheltenham’s
available to discuss purchases and potential
iconic Promenade.
commissions with visitors.
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New Brewery Arts 18 May - 7 July 2013 www.newbreweryarts.org.uk / www.quiltart.eu Brewery Court / Cirencester / GL7 1JH / 01285 657181 / Mon-Sat 9-5 / Sun 10-4 Registered Charity No:900036
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Stroud School of Art All expanding economies are investing in the creative industries - without ideas modern global economies can’t thrive. Where do these ideas come from? We hold ourselves up as the defenders of real art and design education. With 150 years of heritage and pedigree, we stand on the shoulders of giants and reach up higher still. Study at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College (the recently merged Stroud and Filton Colleges) for courses from traditional life drawing through to computer animation, from one day to two years, from Level 1 to Level 6.
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Image by Anne-Marie Randall
The Art Couture Painswick Festival Sunday 14 July 2013 held throughout the centre of Painswick, Gloucestershire. www.acpfestival.co.uk info@acpfestival.co.uk 0744-343-2045
arts • sustainability • spirituality • well-being
H AW KWOOD Co u r ses & R etreats
Japanese Embroidery 4 day courses in April, June, September & November 2013
Stunning Stained Glass 28 – 30 June 2013 Creative Arts Summer School 12 – 21 July 2013 Pottery - contemplative photography - mosaic - silver jewellery woodcarving - the gift of impressionism
Hawkwood provides a beautiful, peaceful setting for courses, retreats and conferences. We are delighted to be part of Select in May 2013.
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Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road, Stroud GL6 7QW Phone us for information or to book or visit our website
Tel: 01453 759034 www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk
Open Day An enjoyable day for the whole family!
Monday 6 May 10am-5pm Free workshops, tutors, artists, café, Maypole, stalls & music.
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...where art comes to life
Stroud International Textiles
SIT
t: 01453 751056 / 07767 763607
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Please note the office is not open to visitors
Stroud International Textiles
Booking Tickets
Stroud Tourist Information Centre
Tickets can be booked in several ways:
Subscription Rooms, George Street Stroud GL5 1AE
1 You can send a cheque made out to Stroud
t: +44 (0) 1453 760960 e: tic@stroud.gov.uk
International Textiles for the full amount and send to the
Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
SIT office address. Remember to include details of
The Tourist Information Centre can give you details
the event you are booking, and your name, address,
on accommodation and they will help with directions.
phone and email plus the postage. A form to fill in is on
You can pick up the brochure there as well.
www.sitselect.org
www.visitthecotswolds.org.uk
2 You can contact the SIT office on 01453 751056 for information.
Getting to Stroud see map on page 37
3 You can book online go to www.sitselect.org
The train and bus station are in the town centre. Parking
4 You can buy direct from the Tourist Information Centre
is plentiful and the parking for the Museum is free and
in Stroud.
located next to Stroud College and the Stratford Park Leisure Centre. For more information contact the Tourist
Ticket Prices
Information Centre.
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We make every attempt to make the entrance to all paid events as affordable to as many people as possible.
Accomodation
Friends of SIT and Museum Friends get a reduced ticket
For a full list contact the Tourist Information Centre
price and students get a concession for the symposium
or go to: www.visitthecotswolds.org.uk
– see the listed event for details. Students can join SIT at a reduced price. For details on joining SIT please go
Eating & Drinking
to our website where you can join on line or send a
There are many cafés in the town. Again the Tourist
cheque. Please bring your Friends membership card
Information Centre can help you with places to eat and
when you attend an event.
drink in town as well as the surrounding area. The Museum serves coffees, teas and soft drinks but
Symposium To book tickets for the Weave Symposium go to page 14 or you can book on line or by sending a cheque as above.
does not serve food.
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Venue Information
Stroud College, Stratford Road, Stroud GL5 4AH
Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, GL5 4AF
t: +44 (0) 1453 763424
t: +44 (0) 1453 763394
Parking: The College is located next to the Leisure
Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Centre car park. If you park in the College car park for
Saturday & Sunday 11am – 5pm
the Symposium please note the gates will shut at 6pm.
unless stated as otherwise in this brochure closed Mondays but note the Museum is open on Bank
Hawkwood, Hawkwood College,
Holiday Mondays 11am – 5pm
Painswick Old Road, Stroud GL6 7QW
The Museum is half a mile from Stroud town centre.
t: +44 (0) 1453 759034
Parking: Parking is in the main car park beside the
To locate Hawkwood College turn up Painswick Old
Leisure Centre off the Stratford Road. There is then a
Road, located opposite Strafford Park on the
short walk to the Museum. Disability parking is available
Painswick Road. The College is a mile up, on the right.
by phoning the Museum and they will arrange for you
Parking: There is ample parking.
to drive round to the entrance. Buses: The number 37 Stagecoach bus leaves the town
Access
centre from outside Lloyds Bank every 20 minutes. Ask
Disability and pushchair access
for the Tesco’s stop and cross over the road and walk a
The Museum, Stroud College, Hawkwood College,
short distance through the park to the Museum. Please
Lansdown Gallery, Ecotricity and World Textile Fair all
note there are no buses on Sundays.
have wheelchair access. Unfortunately other venues
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and some of the studios that are part of the Select Trail may not have disability access. Please check before visiting as special arrangements may be possible.
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Stroud International Textiles
Our Thanks A big thank you to all our sponsors and funders for their
Stroud International Textiles: supporting innovation & creativity
support. SIT Select brings together leading creative thinkers and makers from the world of design and
SIT aims to broaden the perspective of textile arts to
making from across the UK. We support the local
other art forms such as performance, dance, music
economy and raise the profile of the district with our
and the written word and to link through to craft and
high quality programming.
the applied arts. We aim to bring an understanding of the connection of textiles to technology, science
If you would like to find out how you can sponsor SIT
and manufacturing.
we have created a range of sponsorship packages for promoting your organisation programme: for full details
SIT works to create opportunities for artists to develop
please contact the office.
their creative practices and nurture talent and innovation. SIT is a unique cultural focus for the area
Thank you to the Museum in the Park and to all the
and district and we make a significant contribution to
staff and volunteers who make the Museum such a
the economic prosperity of the area.
vibrant happy place. To South Gloucestershire & Stroud College for the Symposium venue and to Justin
We run year round talks and events. The Spring Select
Gregory Head of Faculty, Art, Culture & Media for
is the highlight of our cultural year with exhibitions,
support; to Alicia Carey and Katie Lloyd-Nunn from
talks, workshops, events and a major symposium.
Hawkwood College. www.museuminthepark.org.uk
To become a Friend of SIT go to the main website on
www.sgscol.ac.uk
www.stroudinternationaltextiles.org.uk where you will
www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk
find details on how to join. By becoming a Friend you will enjoy many benefits and reductions on tickets.
Welcome to Yellow Lighted Books this year. They will
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be popping up at the symposium and have books for sale on the SIT stand at the Museum. Yellow Lighted Books have shops in Nailsworth and Tetbury www.yellow-lightedbookshop.co.uk
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A big thank you to all our sponsors and funders for their vision and support: Arts Council England Renishaw Stroud District Council Museum in The Park Stroud College Hawkwood
Patrons Mary La Trobe Bateman OBE Jilly Edwards Lulu Guinness OBE Editor Lizzi Walton Design Chris J Bailey Print Gemini-West.co.uk
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