Resistant Materials III
Ten years of going against the grain

Open Studio Event
Feering Bury Farm Barn
Coggeshall Road, Feering
Essex CO5 9RB

Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th September 2019 11.00 – 18.00

Julie Arkell, Martin Bridges, EMC Collard, Ben Coode-Adams, Simon Emery, Jane Frederick, Sara Impey, Pru Green, Rosie Harman, Tristan Howe, Justin Knopp, Freddie Robins

ALL THE HARD ITEMS AND ALL THE SOFT ITEMS
for your pleasure and stimulation
Disturbing knitting, embroidered words, useful ceramics, un-useful ceramics, paintings of how things really are, printed slogans, tattoo flash drawings, custom car parts, calligraphic love letters, comfortable cooking and cups of tea

CAFÉ curated and run by Julie Arkell

blackwaterpolytechnic.com

Material: Textile
Creativity, History & Process

An exhibition of works by artists working in tapestry and textile from 800 AD to the present day.
Artists: Anni Albers, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Adam Belcher, Louise Bourgeois, George Braque, Antoni Calvé, Oscar Dominguez, Donald Hamilton Fraser, Roger Fry, Magne Furuholmen, Liam Gillick, Ashley Havinden, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Des Hughes, Kurt Jackson, Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, Joseph Kosuth, Francesca Lowe, Goshka Macuga, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Christian Newby, Ben Nicholson, Pablo Picasso, John Piper, Laure Prouvost, Alan Reynolds, Freddie Robins, William Scott, Nicholas de Staël, Hans Tisdal, Rosemarie Trockel, Gavin Turk, Keith Vaughan, Paule Vézelay and Henrik Vibskov

Messums Wiltshire
Place Farm, Court Street, Tisbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP3 6LW

Preview Friday 8 March from 6.00pm. Booking required.
Saturday 9 March – Sunday 28 April 2019
Wednesday – Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm
Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm

Saturday 27 April – Process Weekend: Common Threads
12.45 – 1.45pm 3×15 Talk: Common Threads – Narrative, Process and Collaboration with artists Celia Pym and Freddie Robins + Kate Grenyer (Curator, Dovecot Studios) chaired by Polly Leonard (Editor, Selvedge Magazine). Booking required.

Invitation
For more information and bookings

In the first ever Soft Thoughts podcast, Ruby Smith and Jean Oberlander welcome Freddie Robins. Robins uses juxtapositions between how knitting is and could be seen, unravelling preconceptions of femininity, motherhood, death and the body, and twists the soft into evil and back again, imbuing a sense of power in using metaphor in knitting.

“Soft Thoughts is a textiles podcast that is flexible, twisting and soft, just like the myriad of textiles we love and wear and see in our every day lives. We want to chat about textiles, with people we know, people we don’t know, and everyone in between. We want to be accessible and academic, silly and a wee bit ridiculous, an attempt at bridging the gap between those that practise textiles and those that wear them – the every day and the artists!” Ruby Smith and Jean Oberlander

01: Freddie Robins: Softness is Power. Released 12 December 2018
Listen here

Soft Thoughts blog

Freddie Robins’s article, Do Not Touch, is now published in Surface Design Journal, Fall 2018.

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