by StaceyW | Sep 22, 2017 | Art, Education, Life, Teaching, textiles, Weaving
What a wonderful weekend has just passed! It may have rained – a lot! – and blown a bit of a gale from time to time, and also had us reaching for the woollies and puffa jackets, but the visitors turned up and the atmosphere was fabulous!! It was Journées...
by StaceyW | Apr 17, 2017 | Art, Life, Nature
Just a week ago, if you had told me that Spring would arrive and transform our garden from winter’s silhouettes into verdant flower and leaf, I would have laughed disbelievingly! But this is just what has happened! Last week the trees outside our house were...
by StaceyW | Nov 4, 2016 | Art, Education, textiles, Travel, Weaving
Exhibition: ‘Weaving Futures’ | London Transport Museum Dates: 22 November 2016 to 18 February 2017 ‘Weaving Futures’ is an exhibition at London Transport Museum highlighting the importance of woven textile design to the London Transport system. The...
by StaceyW | Jan 10, 2016 | Art, Education, Life, Publications, textiles, Weaving
I feel very privileged to be living in an era where being an artist does not mean struggling on your own, trying to justify what you do and why you do it against more ‘worthy’ occupations. I know – most of us work on our own, and yes, we do end up...
by StaceyW | Nov 8, 2015 | Art, Education, Philosophy, textiles
It’s been a while since I posted, but life has been busy. More on that in a blog later this month. However….. The Textile Society 33rd Annual Conference was held at the newly extended Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester this weekend. The topic was...
by StaceyW | Nov 9, 2014 | Art, Education, Life, Nature, Philosophy, Psychology, Teaching, Travel, Weaving
I don’t know about you, but I get sent a number of requests from students asking for me to complete questionnaires for their dissertation research. Some of them are not thought through and in that case I reply tactfully that they need to do a bit of basic...
