Textile Study Group

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Memories Addressed: The Hidden Law of the Probable Outcome
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Since 1982 I have exhibited regularly with edge-textile artists scotland, the Embroiderers' Guild, and more recently throughout the UK with The Textile Study Group. Since I gave up full time employment in education I have been able to concentrate more on my own body of work. This allowed me to put on a joint exhibition, with my colleague and friend Alison King, entitled ‘As the Rivers Run’ that travelled extensively throughout Scotland in 2008. At this time I also exhibited with the TSG, ‘Creative Dialogues’ and with edge in ‘Out of the Blue’.

I have undertaken a number of large scale commissions for The Royal Commission on The Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Rachel House, the first hospice for children in Scotland. I have pieces in both private and public collections.

My work has featured in several books and publications including Stitch Magazine, Embroidery and Classic Stitches.

Recently I have gone back to the drawing board rekindling my interest in combining mixed media with stitch. My work contains an element of narrative and is autobiographical in nature, whether it is drawing inspiration from the landscape I grew up in, or tapping into family history. In my textile pieces I like to work large scale and use traditional embroidery techniques within a contemporary context. I use a method of layering to create depth registering the images below with those above. I am sure this method of working has stemmed from my earlier training in screen printing (at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee) where colour separation and registration of one image with another is vitally important.

I enjoy being a freelance lecturer and tutor specialising in 2-3 day workshops with a focus on design and the use of mixed media, for development into stitch. I am currently working on a new body of work under the general heading of ‘Leaving your Mark,’ with a view to exhibiting again in the near future.

Windows of Opportunity
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Rosemary Campbell