Red work

Howard, R (2014) Red work. Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, Manchester, 11 October 2014 - 31 January 2015.

Item Type:	Exhibition
Creators:	Howard, R
Abstract:	In Red Work, Rachael records and celebrates the joys and frustrations of everyday family life in new large-scale work inspired by 19th century redwork story quilts – for her, the Instagram of their day. Red Work : Rachael Howard – Exhibition Funding Award Waterside Arts Centre has been awarded £13,400 from Arts council England’s Grants for the Arts scheme to develop a new exhibition project. Red Work is a solo exhibition by textile artist Rachael Howard, curated by Jenny Waterson, that will showcase how Rachael innovates, mixing traditional craft techniques with digital printing, combining her signature figurative sketches with spontaneous mark-making and found drawings. Rachael's artworks will be further enhanced with 'sound labels' developed for the exhibition by sound artist Nigel Piper. The exhibition explores the shared joys and frustrations of daily life and takes inspiration from traditional story quilts from the 1800s which depict everyday stories of domestic life, including family and local events. Visitors will engage with the work via sound labels and communal drawing events and social media. The project will create routes for artist development - through an artist's talk and workshop, an exhibition catalogue, development activities for curators - and for the public - through a Big Draw event led by Rachael to create a community artwork to exhibit in the show. The exhibition will be shown in Waterside’s Lauriston Gallery and will run in Autumn 2014, to coincide with the Big Draw project and as part of activities for Waterside’s 10th year in operation. Following its run at Waterside, Digital Domestic will then transfer to the Williamson Museum & Art Gallery on The Wirral, which is also contributing £2000 towards the project’s development.
Official URL:	http://www.rachaelhoward.com/category/news/red-wor...
Date:	11 October 2014
Funders:	Arts Council England, Williamson Art Gallery, Bath School of Art and Design
Event Location:	Waterside Arts Centre, Sale, Manchester
Number of Pieces:	92
Keywords:	Textiles Red Work
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration N Fine Arts > NK Decorative arts Applied arts Decoration and ornament
Divisions:	Bath School of Design
Date Deposited:	10 Apr 2015 09:59
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2024 10:31

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