Tag: Spotify

  • So she was turned to a pillar of salt

    Jo Rogge, an artist who lives between South Africa and Namibia, is non-binary and creates work that comments and highlights social issues that they have experienced. In this show, just ended in Windhoek’s “The Project Room” in Namibia, Rogge’s repurposed textiles take their place alongside visual art. The textiles are found pieces that have been…

  • This week’s Spotify playlist

    Each blog is accompanied by a playlist of audio pieces on Spotify, the streaming platform. The playlist brings together disparate music and, sometimes, other audio that has something to do with the entries on the blog. To listen to the playlist click on the Player above or go to Spotify and search for “Music to…

  • No Dogs

    This award-winning film is a hard-hitting, stylish and shocking look at 1930s America.

  • Delft tiles… by AI

    Artificial Intelligence might be concerning to some but might it also be a useful creative tool? A new company based in the UK makes use of AI to allow users to enter prompts to generate images that are then transferred to ceramic tiles in the Staffordshire Potteries and fired. The resulting tiles are unique to…

  • The Spotify playlist

    Each week a selection of music is curated to go along with the blog. The playlist can be heard on the player above or by heading over to Spotify and searching for “Music to read a blog by”. The selections have something to do with the entries on the blog. Depending on the listener’s subscription…

  • Aboriginal art in New York

    Aboriginal art celebrates the land, for it is through painting, singing and dancing that the land can express and become itself. A show in New York’s Asia Society of seventy-four pieces includes video to provide a context to the beautiful artwork – bark paintings (not all on bark) – on display until January 2025. Seventy-four…

  • Hawaiian quilts and island ecology

    A new book has just been published by Common Threads that explores fifteen contemporary quilts and their relationship to the ecology of Hawai’i. Marenka Thompson-Odlum, a Research Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford leads a project to enhance the Museum’s collections, commission new work and develop relationships with communities represented in the…

  • Cataloguing and photographing the textile collection

    The studio in Greymouth Māwhera is continuing to evolve as more pieces are added to the collection and as we prepare the space for the equipment to come over from the UK. At the back of the space is a storage area and that is where the textile collection, which includes the piece below from…

  • A new use for newspaper

    Newspaper has a new lease of life in the work of South African Tamlin Blake. Tamlin Blake’s art is concerned with the ways in which materials can be used and reused. In her most recent work, newspaper is hand-spun into yarn that is then used to create tapestries. Presenting this material alongside mosaics and embroideries…

  • The Price of Memory

    In 2015, the National Gallery of Jamaica hosted an exhibition of 7 women artists. One of those artists was Miriam Hinds Smith. Miriam Hinds Smith is a Jamaican-born artist with a textile diploma from the country and a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the UK. Her art explores materials and indigenous knowledge, using textiles…