Yvonne’s Granddad used to work as a fisherman at sea and she talks fondly of his incredibly weathered face and all the different knots and knot making skills that were necessary to his trade. She has always been interested in the various craft based textiles such as knitting, crochet, weaving and embroidery using more traditional…
Category: Artist Talks
Jupiter Artland
We take our inspiration from many things…here we are soaking up a bit of arts and culture at Jupiter Artland.
KALOPSIA Textile Collective
Thinking about Adele’s drawings and an idea to convert them into design for sportswear we thought we’d visit Kalopsia Textile Collective. Nina and Adam, founders and owners of Kalopsia were showing us samples of sportswear and other garments that have been created as a prototype and explained the way they work and the what’s important to…
Island Bagging & Table Tennis
Curious Routes met last week at ESW research space to look back at what we have been up to this far, discuss ideas and talk about what we want to work towards with new artist to the project Donna Rutherford. http://www.donnarutherford.org/ We asked Donna to come and join the project because she has a unique…
Workspace
https://www.facebook.com/workspacedunfermline/ Alan Grieve’s is Workspace – He’s an experienced hairdresser and artist based in Dunfermline. Alan loves hearing and collecting people’s stories. He’s an incredible character, brilliant personality and exchanges stories for haircuts. We wanted to go meet him and Dave was keen to have his mohawk manicured by Alan. We cooked for Alan in exchange for…
Emily Millichip’s Studio
Artist Kevin McPhee and Adele have been chatting about possible ways of working with her designs in textile and fabric design. So it seemed like an idea to go and see fashion designer Emily Millichip’s collection in her studio. Adele loved Emily’s designs and showed Emily her portfolio of drawings and talked about possible ways the designs could work…