Following the highly successful Textiles in Performance, Studio Seven presents an interactive, site-specific textile installation which engages viewers with textile art in a new, exciting way.

Unlike an exhibition, Make Do & Mend encourages the audience to explore, participate and discover. In doing so, they will bring life, movement and further meaning to the textiles. Inspired by the local textile heritage of the Stroud valleys area, this collaborative project focuses on the themes of weavers and weaving, woollen mills, the use of the Stroud Scarlet cloth for military uniforms, women working in industry during wartime, and the ethos of ‘make do and mend’.

These thematic threads are brought together by the seven artists into a unified world of images and ideas which the audience is invited to explore.Enter an Alice in Wonderland-like rabbit hole world of ‘eat me, drink me’ instructions; of objects out of scale and out of place; of looms and pulleys, fragments and whispers; of animated dummies and mechanical garments; of warp and weft weaving and unravelling across a textile landscape.

The Studio Seven textiles artists Liz Lippiatt, Anne Rogers, Jenny Bicât, Kathryn Clarke, Corinne Hockley, Sarah Pearson Cooke, and Sarah Cant work both independently and collaboratively to produce a beautiful and diverse range of textile-based artwork, clothing, fashion accessories, and soft furnishings using printing, dyeing, painting, felt-making, multi-media, and millinery techniques. In 2007, they began working on projects, such as this one, which bring textiles to audiences in new and surprising contexts. In March 2008, they will re-open their studio at the New Brewery Arts in Cirencester.

Event details:
2nd – 11th May 2008
Stroud Valleys Artspace
4 John Street
Stroud GL5 2HA
Entrance: £3

For further information, please contact:
Sarah Cant
tel. 01451 851808
mobile 07866 759703
sarah@sarahcant.co.uk

Studio Seven

Stroud Textile festival