seam collective's A Visible THREAD exhibition, Black Swan Arts, Frome, Somerset, UK 16 Sept. - 29 Oct 2023
This was the second iteration of seam collective's Arts Council-funded 4-venue exhibition tour in the South West of England. We also did a bonus A Visible THREAD exhibition at Wirth Gallery at Sherborne Girls' School in Sherborne, Dorset in January 2024. The official tour began in May 2023 and will finish at the end of August 2024. It's been wonderful to be part of it.
Here is a walkthrough video of the exhibition:
Challenging myself about sustainability, I knitted a new sculpture Stash, using yarn from a very large stash of yarn that was given to me by a friend. It had belonged to her late mother. I knitted it as a response to the theme of the exhibition, A Visible THREAD. Find out more about the ideas and processes behind Stash - and about the way I see it as a shapeshifter - in the in-depth blog post I wrote about it for the seam website, Stash busting and shapeshifting.
I was very pleased to have the opportunity to install it for the first time at Black Swan Arts. I trialled several ideas and this was how it was finally exhibited: