Textile Study Group

Cloth surrounds us from our earliest days, favourite garments provide a sense of comfort and security and old textiles capture memories of times, places and people. Using your own choice of garment/s, we will work with a range of methods, to include print, free drawing and collage. We will begin a collection of investigative, mixed media design work inspired by clothes or domestic textiles. Moving on from a series of design experiments, starting points and test pieces in paper and fabric, we will explore your personal interests, working in whatever way suits your work and ideas. Individual tutorials will form an important part of this workshop.

Sarah is now a freelance textile artist, designer and tutor after twenty-five years teaching in further and higher education. She enjoys the unpredictable nature of her working days and is excited by the interface between visual research, design and stitch. Sarah's recent work has been concerned with using museum collections and artefacts as inspiration. The idea of collecting and the storage of collections are both important influences. She is fascinated by the idea of narrative; telling stories and tracing histories through the medium of textile and stitch frequently using the symbol of a glove.