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Adult Workshop: Mandy Pattullo

May 2, 2023May 3, 2023 Textile Study Group 0 Comment News, workshops artist led workshop, dolls, embroidery, hand embroidery, hand stitching, handmade, learning, Making50, Mandy Pattullo, Peebles Museum, repurposing, Textile Study Group, textiles

Running throughout April to July at the Peebles Library and Museum, we are celebrating Making:50 with opportunities for you to meet some of the artists and join in artist led workshops. Our second Creative Workshop is with Mandy Pattullo.

Date: 18th May 2023, 10am- 3.00pm.

Venue: Peebles Library and Museum

Price £45.00

To book call the Museum & Gallery on: 01721 726333 or email libpeebles@liveborders.org.uk

In this hand stitching workshop you will learn to make a small cloth doll using a piece of vintage log cabin quilt as a starting point. You will learn Mandy’s construction techniques, how to get lovely limbs, how to stitch the face and hair. You will come away with a precious little doll that you will not want to give away!

Please bring your own sewing kit- needles, pins, scissors. Many will provide a kit of all the other things you need at a cost of £5.00 per person.

Making:50 Gallery Workshops

March 28, 2023April 10, 2023 Textile Study Group 0 Comment News, workshops artist books, design, handmade book, learning, teaching, Textile Study Group, textiles, workshops

Running throughout April to July at the Peebles Library and Museum, we are celebrating Making:50 with opportunities for you to meet some of the artists and join in artist led workshops.

The first date for your diary is Friday 28th April, 1pm – 3.00pm, where you can meet artist Mary Sleigh.

Mary Sleigh’s workshop ‘Creating 3D Book forms using mixed media‘

Saturday 19th of April, 10am to 3.00pm.

Venue Peebles Library and Museum.

Price £45.00

To book call the Museum & Gallery on: 01721 726333 or email libpeebles@liveborders.org.uk

Adult Workshop: Mary Sleigh

To create a 3D book structure we shall use mixed media and simple book binding techniques. Students will be encouraged to include personal themes and ephemera to make their own individual handmade book.

Making Conversation

March 27, 2023March 27, 2023 webusermanager 0 Comment News

Making Conversation is a series of six online events. In each session, two Textile Study Group members reflect on and share their own experience of creating new work for the Making:50 exhibitions.

Initial ideas and inspiration, frustrations and successful parts of the creative process, together with images of the artists’ work, are included in each conversation. Join us for an opportunity to have a peek over their shoulders and ask questions.

Our First Making Conversation, will be on the 17th April: Sheila Mortlock & Shelley Rhodes.

Sessions will be held via Zoom starting at 7pm (UK time) and will last approximately 1 hour.

Ticket price is £7.50 per talk.

Each ticket purchase is for one person to attend the talk.

Ticket sales will close 24 hours before each session.

No refunds.

Session invitation links will be emailed out on the morning of each talk.

Talks will not be recorded.

To book a ticket, please visit: SHOP

Visit our website for more information on each artist’s practice: MEMBERS

TALK DATES:

17th April: Sheila Mortlock & Shelley Rhodes

15th May: Dorothy Tucker & Jane McKeating

26th June: Alice Fox & Janet Edmonds

7th August: Mandy Pattullo & Sue Green

2nd October: Mary Sleigh & Julia Triston

13th November: Sarah Burgess & Sian Martin

Making:50

November 16, 2022November 16, 2022 Textile Study Group 0 Comment News Anniversary, design, embroidery, exhibition, Making50, Textile Study Group, textiles, The Ropewalk, Tweeddale Museum

The Textile Study Group reaches a milestone anniversary

The Textile Study Group will be 50 in 2023. For half a century this group has been at the forefront of innovative making, teaching, and textile art practice. Since its inception in 1973, and originally established to support tutors of embroidery, the group has evolved and grown in stature and is now one of the UK’s most prestigious and respected groups of textile artists and tutors.

The Textile Study Group maintains a core membership of 25 experienced textile teachers, all of whom are nationally and internationally recognised for their forward-thinking and challenging approaches to art practice, contemporary teaching and making. Many members are published authors of best-selling textile, art, and design books, and many have won prizes and awards for their outstanding work in the world of textiles, as have their students.

Making:50 a landmark exhibition

We will be celebrating our anniversary year with a significant touring exhibition – Making:50 – and by publishing a limited edition bespoke book. Both will include new and exciting work from our current membership, and acknowledge those who paved the way by initiating ‘Group ‘73’, (which later evolved into the Practical Study Group, renamed the Textile Study Group in 2010).

Each new artwork in this anniversary exhibition includes an element of 50 – either obviously or obscurely – and some artists will be discussing their work in an exciting series of online lectures and Meet the Artist events.

Exhibition details

Tweeddale Museum & Gallery, Peebles (1^st April – 5^th August 2023).

The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber (16^th September – 26^th November 2023).