sampler-cultureclash @ Textile11 Biennial, Kaunas Lithuania 2011

A short film introducing the workshop we gave last year during the Textile 11 Biennial in Kaunas, Lithuania. click here to watch the film

Ulster Festival of Art & Design

sampler-cultureclash is delighted to be performing at this year's Ulster Festival of Art & Design. You need to book tickets, but the event is free of charge. If you're in, or fancy a visit to, Belfast in March be great to see you there. See link for details http://ulsterfestival.com/

In Conversation with Boys Who Sew

Happy New Year! Wishing you all a peaceful, collaborative and creative 2012.

It's a while since I posted anything on the sampler blog, as I've been busy with my own residency in Berlin - In Search of Berlin Wool.

However, I'm delighted to say that all being well the sampler-cultureclash collective will be getting together for several events in 2012, including performances in Belfast in March and at the Manchester Craft and Design Centre on Saturday 14 July. In addition we're at the early stages of curating a mini textile and sound festival in Berlin in the summer. We'll keep you posted on them all.

In the meantime to kick the year off I'm delighted to be taking part in the In Conversation with Boys Who Sew event at Mac, Birmingham at 7.30pm on Tuesday 17 January. Curated by Trevor Pitt I'll be joining the now infamous Jamie Chalmers (aka Mr X Stitch), Stewart Easton whose exhibition Four Tragic Tales in currently on at MAC, and the Birmingham legend Twiggy for a fun evening of chat and debate about all matter of things embroidered.

Be great to see a few of you there.

Click on the link for a selection of photos from our recent workshop and performance as part of Textile 11 - International Textile Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania.
sampler-cultureclash photos - Textile 11.

Photos very kindly taken by Kristina Čyžiūt.

Textile 11 - Kaunas, Lithuania

sampler-cultureclash head off to Kaunas, Lithuania this week to take part in the Textile 11 Biennial. I hope to meet up with old friends and meet lots of new folk. If you're there please sign up for the workshop on the 6th Oct and come see our performance on the Friday evening.

In Search of Berlin Wool

Follow my new research project exploring 19th Century Berlin Wool work embroidery, as I take a collection of printed and hand painted patterns from the Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery's collection back to Berlin. The patterns were originally created in Berlin and I hope to re-trace their histories, their makers and make some new work inspired by the research and see if Berlin has any sheep. I'll be posting updates on the journey on the In Search of Berlin Wool blog. The research project is very kindly supported by Artquest and ACAVA through their 3 Months in Berlin residency programme in partnership with Milchhof Studios in Berlin, where I'll be resident. Also, with the very kind support of Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery who have given me fantastic access to, and advice on, their wonderful collection of original Berlin Wool work printed patterns.

The Paper Orchestra

Berit Greinke and I will be taking part in the Connected Communities symposium next week 12-14Sept hosted by Culture Lab in Newcastle. We've been developing the Paper Orchestra idea, which we first tried out at Future Everything in Manchester back in May, now taking it to the next stage. We're running two workshops where delegates will be invited to play and test this model. They will be broadcast on Culture Lab Radio, hosted by Ko-Le Chen and Rachel Clarke. Monday and Tuesday 12:30-13.20 (GMT). Expect loud and messy.
http://culturelabradio.ncl.ac.uk/

We'll also be talking as part of the Wednesday session about co-creation.

We're looking forward to seeing and hearing what the other delegates are up to aswell.
Should be a fantastic three days. Maybe see a few of you there?