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Hair fabric personal experiments
Once the fabric was digitally printed we each took away a piece to work on in which ever way we felt inspired. Helen was inspired by ideas of patchwork & collage and the way images are put together. She was interested in … Continue reading
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Hair Still Life
After a few hours drawing a still life made up of wigs, a fox stole and the odd doll we talked about what incarnations our drawings could take on. Laying them out suggested that we could start by scanning these … Continue reading
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Four Ladies, Three Museums, Two buses and a Chicken Shawarma
Manchester Cloth took a long anticipated day out to visit some Manchester museums and galleries. We met up in the morning at the People’s History Museum, keen on viewing the banner collection. We found there was a lot of information … Continue reading
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Drawing
Gemma took us through a series of drawing workshops which were greatly enjoyed by all concerned. She said she enjoyed bossing the rest of us around though we felt she missed out by not doing the drawing. We all found … Continue reading
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Multi Stitch Embroidery
Whilst we were pattern cutting Mandy showed each of us how to use her multi head embroidery machine. This amazing machine has six needles and can stitch out very complex images as directed by a computer program. She demonstrated how to use a photo or … Continue reading
Pattern Cutting
For the next few sessions we met at Mandy’s studio in Chorlton. Helen showed us how to deconstruct a garment in order to make a paper pattern and we also created a paper pattern from a dress with out taking … Continue reading
Open Day Reflections
Overall a resounding success exceeding expectations left, right and centre. The following six photos take us around the room left to right. General feedback was very positive and we would like to thank all those who visited us and encourage … Continue reading
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Exquisite Corpse Open Day
Phew, it has taken a while to catch our breath after the event! We all had a brilliant day, with over 70 visitors we didn’t get much of a chance to take photos. We spent most of our time talking … Continue reading
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An Invitation
You are invited to a one day Exhibition that will take place on Saturday 3rd September between 10.00am – 5.30pm Showcasing the project ‘Exquisite Corpse’ by the Artists Gemma Lacey, Helen Mather, Mandy Tolley and Kiran Williams The exhibition will … Continue reading
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Skill Sharing starting with Flock Vinyl
We have started a series of workshops sharing skills that we use in our individual practice. We began with a session on using the vinyl cutter with Kiran. She had used the vinyl cutter in her interpretation of the Pony piece. The vinyl cutter cuts out designs … Continue reading
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