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Adventures shared, together stitched - part two, exhibitions & publications
Click here to access a different blog post that shares the full details of how we made this quilt, and what each element signifies.
This blog post summarises where this quilt has been shown, spoken about and published.
Exhibitions & publications
1. March 2021: Selected for PAQA-South*'s 2021 International Juried Exhibit, “ART QUILTS going forward”, an online exhibition of just 30 selected quilts.
“In the spring of 2020, the world changed. Whether a dramatic shift or subtle alteration, everyone has been affected. What do you miss? How are you adjusting to present times? What is your vision of how we will live together going forward?”
* PAQA-South: the Professional Art Quilters Alliance – South (promoting innovative art quilts, art cloth and art garments).
Gwen writes, “My Mother-In-Law, Mary, lost her husband Martyn at the start of the UK’s first lockdown. During this time of profound grief and alone-ness we shielded her from the outside world.
Time warped around us, stretched and compressed as we waded through emotions together. The slow hand stitching of memories served as a distraction, distorting the past and the future, yet each stitch proved that time was passing, as we navigated placement, colour, method.
Each element captures a memory of things that the four of us had experienced together, commemorates an event, or embraces a shared adventure yet to come.”
2. April 2021: Selected for Gallery section of Curated Quilts Journal, Issue 15.
3. Curated Quilts IG Live / IGTV, 14 April 2021
Gwen talks with @ChristineRicks about this quilt, why she started quilting, and her #HugQuilt s.
IG account needed to watch this IGTV, this is the link.
4. BBC Radio Bristol, 30 April 2021
Click here to access the recording (you will need to register/log-in), and then wind it forward to 1 hour, 43 minutes, 40 seconds to hear Gwen spoke with Steve Yabsley (in her very best Bristol accent) about the making of the quilt.
5. Quilts In The Garden, 11 & 12 June 2021
Click on YouTube link to watch video of private "exhibition" in the Quilt Pavilion for small invited groups of friends & family.
6. Quilt story submitted to Quilt Alliance "Sacred Threads", June 2021
Video of the quilt's story recorded for Quilt Alliance's Sacred Threads StoryShare, "Go Tell It!". You can find all the "Go Tell It" videos here, they are wonderful!
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7. Festival of Quilts, at NEC, UK 29 July - 1 August 2021
Entered into the "Two Person" category.
What next?!
Mary would still very much like to share this quilt on BBC Points West!
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