I’m exhibiting in this cool place in the next couple of weeks :)

The old Millets store, Albion Street, LS2 8NG

Some little things I made today

Sort of homage to Judith Scott and Sheila Hicks

(please excuse the poor lighting in some of the photos, they were kind of rushed)

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Brainstorming…

Thanks to the lovely people at Sculpture Village UK, I’ll be showing some pieces during Towersey Festival this August bank holiday weekend.

Towersey is an amazing folk-centred festival held every year in Towersey Village, Oxfordshire, and I have been there for the last three years as part of the litter and recycling team, otherwise known as the Towersey Wombles. We litterpick the showground and surrounding areas at least three times each day, empty all the bins throughout the festival, make sure as much stuff as possible gets recycled, and at the end, we litter-pick the entire site (campsites included!) to make sure it’s left as empty and clean as we found it.

Festival plug over, I can draw your attention to Sculpture Village, who have been resident at Towersey for the past 7 years as a pop-up gallery and sculpture workshop centre, and are the heart of the visual arts at Towersey. Last year the Wombles were commissioned to create a sculpture out of the rubbish we found during the festival. This year we’ll hopefully be doing the same, so look out for that.. In addition to that, I’ll be showing some work at Sculpture Village which I’m super excited about.

One more thing!! I know many of you are of the creative persuasion, so if you’re interested in getting involved with Sculpture Village in any way, they’d love you to get in touch. Message them via Facebook. Links below!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sculpture-Village/377342602285114
http://towerseyfestival.com/

Sculpture Village residents:
http://anna-krystyna-casey.com/
http://www.donnabramall.co.uk/

I also have some other news which I will elaborate on in due course, to do with a pop-up shop exhibition I will be taking part in here in Leeds very soon. Watch this space!!

Hi new followers! Thanks, you’re lovely, hope you enjoy my work

Same! I read Powers of Horror for my most recent essay, it should be in this pile but I haven’t got it back out of the library yet.

Yep, that’s all my second year work in a bin bag.

Uh-oh…………

This is my favourite one. I made it just by wrapping string round a piece of cotton fabric, and it’s got quite an intestinal feeling about it.

Dyed with turmeric and chilli flakes.

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This one I like slightly better than the last one, it’s made from tights and socks and sort of evolved from being seperate pieces to being one.

It’s dyed with paprika and bacon bits and smells bad as well.

I think it’s fair to say it’s quite butthole-y

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This is the first of the contact dye pieces, a squidgy baby thing made after I cut a random piece of cotton and sewed the edges up as I went along, then turned it inside out and stuffed it.

I then embroidered a weird singular eye/face/butthole/mouth thing on one end, and dyed it with bacon bits, soy sauce, turmeric and paprika. It smells so bad it makes me want to vomit.

The worst thing about all these pieces (next two are coming up shortly) is that for some reason I decided to dye them after stuffing them so after 2 days they’re still sopping wet. Clever me! I actually think I hate them.

Some last-minute contact dye experiments on some stuffed and wrapped forms made with cotton fabric, tights and socks. The dyes are turmeric, paprika, soy sauce, chilli flakes and bacon flavoured soy pieces (those give off a sickly pink haha)

I realise these will smell awful and probably go mouldy but I don’t care at this point, I’ll most likely get rid of them after the deadline

hex—omega:

tate-collectives:

We Are All Artists - Lydia

Untitled 2013 (soft sculptures)

Cotton string, jute, hemp cord, sheep’s wool, banana silk, sticks, natural dyes.

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Just submitted a picture of my exhibition piece to Tate Collectives- visit the blog to find out about it and submit your own work, it’s pretty exciting like

I lost a follower after posting my hairy babies…..

Clearly couldn’t handle the pube