Links

This week, our links are going to be nice and largely craft-themed, in contrast to last weeks geekier font post.

First off:

http://www.unittwelve.co.uk/

Kaboom, new Unit 12 website! Unit Twelve is like a big iron storage barn thing on a farm that is filled with beautiful things, should you ever be lucky enough to be in the area. It houses several busy artists (well they don't live there or anything, just work there) who sometimes run workshops where you get a chance to drink many hot beverages and enjoy being arty for a day.

http://www.emilynotman.co.uk/index.htm

Emily Notman being one of the artists at Unit 12 that I did a textiles workshop with in January. Her work is always super intricate and gorgeous and she was super nice and funny.

http://www.annacollettehunt.com/

I regret using the word beautiful in practically the first paragraph of this post, because I'm running out of imaginative words to descibe how nice I think the work I'm linking to is. All the colours and the details. Anna Collette Hunt is primarily a ceramicist, I urge people to admire her work.

http://charlottemacey.co.uk/home.html

Really cute fabric patterns made into all kinds of useful products.

(Button designed by Jenny Brindley)

http://victoriascholes.blogspot.co.uk/

There's going to be a button exhibition in Macclesfield (Barnaby Festival 14th-30th June!). I am too excited about this. Victoria Scholes is helping to organise this (might be the main organiser) and has some gorgeous photos of some of the submissions so far. I need to convince somebody else that it's going to be the best thing evar so that I can hitch a lift. Really don't want to miss it.

some pictures of work I did at a workshop hosted by Emily Notman

Mad-busy January simultaneously studying for and NVQ2 in business and administration (excitement, I know) doing work experience at the New Vic Theatre, job-shopping and looking for a flat in Wolverhampton at the same time. I managed to carve out some time this weekend in between packing (moving next weekend yo) to attend a textiles workshop with Emily Notman which was the highlight of my month. Oh my days! It was awesome! I've missed being in a workshop so much! At the same time I was totally out of my artistic comfort zone playing around with fabric, sewing machines and wotnot, which is always great.

Unfortunately most of my photographs look like gobshite on toast so I guess you'll have to watch this space until I can take less crappy ones. Wouldn't hold your breath.