Workshop: pattern/colour/stripe

*Note that sewing machines will be used for this workshop. We welcome participants with no prior experience, but beginner sewing machine experience is preferred.

**This is a small workshop. If you cannot attend, please cancel your ticket to allow others the opportunity to participate.

***For participants aged 18 and over.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

In this workshop you will use simple methods of patchwork to produce experimental textile samples that explore pattern, colour, and stripe. Referencing textile techniques such as strip-piecing and improvised patchwork, commonly used in quilting, you will work with colour sourced from re-purposed material. This workshop will encourage you to play with colour and pattern in instinctive ways, providing you with methods to develop your own unique textile pieces through a process of repetition. We will not be working with predesigned patterns, but rather letting the process of patchwork inform the result! The outcome from this workshop will be a collection of playful sampling that can be developed in your own personal projects.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Amy Tidmarsh is a multidisciplinary textile designer, maker, and educator driven by an inventive approach to hand-based textile skills. By combining intuitive ways of working with an in-depth focus on practice-based research, she explores ideas centred around craft, process, and performative textiles.

In 2021 she was awarded The Textile Society Critical Writing Open Award for her research paper ‘To Instruct’. She has presented her research at the Performing Scores / Scoring Performance conference held in Manchester in 2023, and at the International Foundation Educators Symposium in 2021. She graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a BA (Hons) in Embroidery in 2012, and an MA in Textile Design from the Royal College of Art in 2021. In 2016 she completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Education, specialising in Further Education at Huddersfield University.

Amy is a lecturer, teaching Art and Design, specifically Fashion and Textile Design, across Further and Higher Education for the past 13 years. Institutions where Amy has taught include Leeds Arts University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Nottingham Trent University, and the Open College of the Arts. Delivering lectures, workshops and projects is at the core of Amy’s teaching practice, and she is passionate about designing engaging and inquisitive educational experiences, often centring around textile understanding, materiality, and playful approaches to colour. She is currently based between Utrecht, The Netherlands, and Manchester, UK.

WORK-IN-PROGRESS RESIDENCY

Textile Arts Center’s Work in Progress (TAC WIP) is a window into the studio practice of contemporary artists and designers that engages the public in a dialogue with the field of textiles.⁠

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