I am so delighted to have my work as part of this wonderful exhibit. I only wish I could see it in person. Maybe if you are a Brit you can and let me know how it is?
Presents:
Hemmed In
Embroidery and Needlework from MK and Beyond
7 December 2012 – 6 January 2013, Admission free
Preview / Christmas Party 14 December 5pm – 10pm
Hemmed In: Embroidery and Needlework from MK and Beyond
presents work from the 1930s to the present by over fifty practitioners,
organised with MK Embroiderers Guild and Jamie Chalmers, otherwise
known as Mr X Stitch. Ranging from the local to the international, the
exhibits include needlework through unusual media, techniques and
unexpected subject matter, including street art, rock music and internet
spam. The exhibition at MK Gallery runs from 7 December 2012 – 6
January 2013, and admission is free.
MK Embroiderers Guild (MKEG) is Milton Keynes’ local branch of the
nation’s leading craft organisation. For the exhibition, the MKEG have
challenged their members to represent ‘Milton Keynes in an eight-inch
square’, to create small, needle and thread portraits of their favourite
places in the city. The results constitute a real celebration of the
city in stitch. In addition to work by the members, the exhibition
includes a number of rare and significant pieces on loan from national
collections, including such luminaries from the embroidery world as
Rebecca Crompton, Rachael Thompson, Julia Caprara and Beryl Dean.
In contrast, the work selected by Jamie Chalmers, an active leader in
the “new embroidery movement” is far from “Hemmed In”, either in scale,
media or content. Chalmers aims to bring the world of cross-stitch and
embroidery to a new audience and to restore embroidery to the heart of
the art world. The works on view at MK Gallery will offer an expanded,
radical and alternative view of contemporary embroidery from stitchers
across the world, and demonstrates the unusual directions it is taking
internationally. It will include an embroidered car door from Severija
Inčirauskaité-Kriaunevičiené from Lithuania, Erin M. Riley’s Shotgun
tapestries and Tilleke Schwartz’s hand embroidered masterpieces.
Although contemporary artists today work across a wide range of
genres from video to textiles and photography to sculpture as
exemplified by artists such as Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin, the
exhibition charts the evolution, throughout the twentieth century, of
embroidery from domestic decoration to high art.
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