My Journal

Autumn is my best loved time of year, my most creative time of year. Taking new ideas and salvaged materials, making samples before creating larger scale pieces in hand weave, print and embroidery to exhibit in 2025. ...

I've been away for a few weeks. It's been Inspiring to see new exhibitions, my favourite by Jeff Owen at Huis Marseille. Salvaging yarn and fabrics at my treasured market The Noordermarkt, located in the Jordaan quarter Amsterdam. Finding new inspiration, forming new ideas to weave into my next textile...

Thank you to all that stopped by to say hello at Selected space Sheffield this weekend, one of my favourite all time shows. Beautiful creative work and genuinely lovely vibe. The perfect balance of art & craft after an impromptu visit to Antwerp....

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Kate Whitehead At @selectedspace Sheffield12-14 July 2024Persistence Works21 Brown StreetSheffield | S1 2BS...

Visiting exhibitions in London. Collecting fabric, yarn and new ideas. ...

Tate ModernTurbine HallEl Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is a monumental sculptural installation made of thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments. Crumpling, crushing, and stitching them into different compositions, large panels are pieced together to form massive abstract fields of colour, shape and line. The commission builds on Anatsui’s...

TATE MODERN EXHIBITIONDelve into the powerful, participatory work of artist and activist Yoko OnoYoko Ono is a trailblazer of early conceptual and participatory art, film and performance, a celebrated musician, and a formidable campaigner for world peace. Developing her practice in the United States, Japan and the UK, ideas are...

The Power And Politics Of Textiles In Art @ The Barbican. Textiles are vital to our lives. We are swaddled in them when we're born, we wrap our bodies in them every day and we're shrouded in them when we die. What does it mean to imagine a needle, a...