derbyshire makes - dare to dream

Wow! Was totally blown away by the generosity and care the Heanor Library Craft Group and Sewing Group that meet at Infinite Wellbeing in Heanor have focused into their textile patches for the Derbyshire Makes Dare to Dream project.

The textile pieces have taken hours and hours of work and are a stitched love letter to Derbyshire! The groups are so supportive of each other, sharing ideas, skills and encouragement.

These pieces are being uploaded to the digital loom, which is growing day by day. Check out the link for information on how to submit your own artwork to the loom.

Inspired by the past and looking to the future 💚

cultures of care gathering

A couple of weekends ago I was delighted to travel to Woodhouse Eaves in Leicestershire and attend the Cultures of Care Gathering hosted by artist Ruth Singer.

Cultures of Care is Ruth's ACE funded project. I worked on the Care Collaboration element, alongside Mandeep Dhadialla.

It was so good to reflect upon and revisit what inspired the making of, and experience of wearing my handmade Walking Skirt with attendees. After giving my talk I spent a wonderful hour in the company of lovely humans. Participants bought along a garment and stitched words about walking and shapes representing the landscapes they live in into their clothes.

Image by Ruth Singer

Photo on screen by Clare Logan

do you want to see a fabulous show?

Celebration is showing at the QUAD Gallery in Derby until 29th August 2025!

The exhibition showcases the creative achievements of children and young people from Virtual School and QUAD's Schools in Residence Programme funded by the Paul Hamlin Foundation's Arts-Based Learning Fund.  

I was delighted to work with an amazing group of year 3 pupils from Pear Tree Community Junior School! The group created these fabulous 'Semotion' flags, inspired by semaphore: a visual signalling method to convey information at a distance. 

Visitors are invited to select a flag and share their feelings - the semaphore alphabet is displayed and using two flags messages can be spelled out for others to interpret in the gallery. What would you share?

Big thank you to QUAD and Mandy McKirdy, Schools in Residence Producer.

Expressive mark-making on fabric using pencils, fabric pens & paint

Flags expressing feelings

 •confused •happy •fine •joy •proud •disappointed 

•scared •anger •love •jealous •sad •excited

Do you want to see a fabulous show?