Svg patterns

Featuring Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry, this exciting exhibition is an artistic collaboration between visual artists and a skilled digital embroidery technician who has translated and transformed a series of original artworks into a collection of digitally embroidered artefacts.  Exploring the relationship between the artist and the technician, Closely Held Secrets reveals the nature of the hidden dialogue between the originator of an idea and the agent of interpretation, pushing the boundaries and applications for digital embroidery.

Artists:

Tony Taylor (embroidery), Grayson Perry, Simon Beck Mather, Craig Fisher, Charlotte Hodes, Geoff Diego Litherland, Danica Maier, Derek Sprawson, Katherine Townsend and Stella Whalley.

This exhibition is taking place in affiliation with Sideshow 2010.

Print of two figures with a tree in-between them. To the left, a male figure holds and apple, wearing bright orange trousers, a black coat and a red hat. To the right a female figure wearing a yellow and red vertical striped dress. Around them there are animals and flowers.
Grayson Perry Recipe for Humanity, 2005.
blue and white thread on a white background. The green thread occupies the upper, patches in the middle, and the bottom left, of a shape which resembles a oval with a whole missing from the middle, going to the bottom edge of the shape. There are darker blue threads which randomly intersect this shape,
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The outline of a pair of eyes, with black outlines, and solid Green irises, are positioned above a randomly cut out image of a small child who is wearing a flat cap.
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Close up of one of the embroidery sewing machines working on one of the art works.
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Silver iridescent threads make a pattern which resembles tree branches with fruit and leaves protruding off them.
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On a brown and black background, this embrodery shows different coloured squares which form together to make the shape of space invaders from the vintage video game of the same name.
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Many brightly coloured embedded stars presented on a black background. Some have Silver lines between them. The stars themselves are a mixture if colours, some with 5 pinots, and some with 6.
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Nine brightly coloured squares placed in a grid. These have purple circles, green rectangles, blue and yellow blocks surrounded by a silver frame. the same image is repeated 9 times.
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Silver thread shows the pattern resembling branches, leaves and fruit. To the left of the image, there are green shapes that resemble palm trees.
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A white lace colar in a U shape is black upon a marbles white and black background.
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Close up detail on embrodery, which has long lose thin white thread in a rectangle on a black background. There is a circular shape which is left black in the centre of this rectangle of thread.
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Close up image or an embrded piece of cloth, showing loose thin white itches over a black background
Close up of work by Kath Townsend
Print of two figures with a tree in-between them. To the left, a male figure holds and apple, wearing bright orange trousers, a black coat and a red hat. To the right a female figure wearing a yellow and red vertical striped dress. Around them there are animals and flowers.
Grayson Perry Recipe for Humanity, 2005.
blue and white thread on a white background. The green thread occupies the upper, patches in the middle, and the bottom left, of a shape which resembles a oval with a whole missing from the middle, going to the bottom edge of the shape. There are darker blue threads which randomly intersect this shape,
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The outline of a pair of eyes, with black outlines, and solid Green irises, are positioned above a randomly cut out image of a small child who is wearing a flat cap.
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Close up of one of the embroidery sewing machines working on one of the art works.
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Silver iridescent threads make a pattern which resembles tree branches with fruit and leaves protruding off them.
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On a brown and black background, this embrodery shows different coloured squares which form together to make the shape of space invaders from the vintage video game of the same name.
Image has no caption
Many brightly coloured embedded stars presented on a black background. Some have Silver lines between them. The stars themselves are a mixture if colours, some with 5 pinots, and some with 6.
Image has no caption
Nine brightly coloured squares placed in a grid. These have purple circles, green rectangles, blue and yellow blocks surrounded by a silver frame. the same image is repeated 9 times.
Image has no caption
Silver thread shows the pattern resembling branches, leaves and fruit. To the left of the image, there are green shapes that resemble palm trees.
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A white lace colar in a U shape is black upon a marbles white and black background.
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Close up detail on embrodery, which has long lose thin white thread in a rectangle on a black background. There is a circular shape which is left black in the centre of this rectangle of thread.
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Close up image or an embrded piece of cloth, showing loose thin white itches over a black background
Close up of work by Kath Townsend


Crafting Anatomies placed the human body at the centre of a multi-disciplinary dialogue; exploring how this entity has been interpreted, crafted and reimagined in historical, contemporary and future contexts.

The exhibition dissected attitudes and approaches towards contexts of the body by showcasing visionary practices of leading international artists, clinicians and designers. These items were featured alongside anatomical exhibits selected from historical collections including films from The Wellcome Trust archive.

Organs crafted by silk worms, bespoke jewellery cultured from human skin cells, and couture garments constructed using plastic surgery cutting techniques were just some of the speculative projects that were on display.

43 practitioners in total took part, including, Shelly Goldsmith, Amy Congdon, Richard Arm, John Pacey-Lowrie,  Juliana Sissons, Karen Ingham, Marloes ten Bhömer, The Human Harp Project, and many more.

A series of talks, demonstrations and workshops accompanied the exhibition, culminating in a symposium which highlighted the rigour in approaches to this subject by the individuals featured in the show.

This exhibition was curated by Amanda Briggs-Goode, Rhian Solomon and Katherine Townsend – members of the Creative Textiles Research Group at Nottingham Trent University.

CRAFTING ANATOMIES EVENT LISTINGS:

Crafting prosthetic eyes 

Wednesday 14  January 2015, 5 pm  – 9 pm
As part of the Special Preview Event ocularist John Pacey-Lowrie gave a demonstration on how to craft prosthetic eyes. John has 35 years’ experience in bespoke ocular prosthetics.  He is one of an extremely small group of talented practitioners who design, manufacture and hand-paint ocular prostheses.

Pattern cutting inspired by plastic surgery

Saturday 17 January 2015, 10 am – 3 pm
Surgical techniques in cloth to create simple garments with Juliana Sissons.

Crafting anatomies to train surgeons

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 3.30 pm – 4.30 pm
Composite material specialist Richard Arm talked about his groundbreaking project that simulates human hearts to train surgeons.

Crafting Anatomies Symposium

Friday 30 January 2015
This one day symposium explored the curious practices of a selection of Crafting Anatomies’ exhibitors, highlighting a preoccupation with the human condition in a breadth of exploratory contexts.

Enquiries
If you have any questions or enquiries about the Crafting Anatomies events listing please email craftinganatomies@ntu.ac.uk

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