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From Dada to Taboo! Our modernist maker feature celebrates provocateur Leigh Bowery 💚 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-...

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Erin M Riley is a textile artist who pushes weaving to the limit in her mission to explore the challenges & contradictions of life in the internet age. In her work the labour of making & surviving is made visible. Read our interview with Erin, on her 1st solo show ‘Look Back At It’: bit.ly/40Eci5n

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Catch up with our Modernist Maker series – from Mina Loy to Bauhaus weavers, Ruth Asawa, Art Smith and more! decoratingdissidence.substack.com/t/modernist-...

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Our January roundup is out now over on Substack. We’ve been easing into the new year with Malene Barnett’s Crafted Kinship 📕 + the Women in Revolt! podcast, & planning trips to Ditchling Museum of Craft’s Tadek Beutlich exhibition 🧵 Read more of our Jan picks: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...

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Thinking about Gertrude Stein this morning: A sentence is an imagined masterpiece. A sentence is an imagined frontispiece. In looking up from her embroidery she looks at me. She lifts up the tapestry. It is partly. Think in stitches. Think in settlements. Think in willows.

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Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026. Please share!

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✨ Our first Modernist Maker feature of 2025 celebrates modern artists’ jewellery - from Peggy Guggenheim’s fabulous earring collection to Surrealist accessories crafted by a master goldsmith and jewellery made by Picasso for friends & lovers ✨ 🔗 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-...

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🌀 In our weekly newsletter, join us for a tour of The Cosmic House - a peculiar wonder of postmodernism 🪬Designed by & for Charles Jencks, the anthropomorphic home is currently host to a site specific installation by artists Tai Shani. Shani sets up a sensuous, surreal dialogue with the interior.

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Latest Modernist Maker post on @decodissidence.bsky.social – who should we feat. in the new year?!

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Our monthly modernist digest looks at the work of the Omega Workshops, inspired by a visit to Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston at Sotheby’s - our faves inc. Wyndham Lewis’ striking orange robe & Vanessa Bell’s The Party (the painting thought to have inspired Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway!)

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"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org

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I have made a starter pack for researchers working on modernist and avant-garde women. Absolutely not comprehensive, just put some names down to get the list started - please let me know if you want to be removed/added! go.bsky.app/VSS1aBR

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📩 Jeremy Deller and Ed Hall's banners make space for William Morris, Morris dancers, acid house, brass bands, gurning competitions, and art to coexist... #banner #textile #craft decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/review-jer...

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👋 Hello! We're Decorating Dissidence - a project documenting craft and making from modernism to now ✂️For radical histories of craft, modernist maker profiles, interviews with artists, curators & makers, reviews, guest essays and more, subscribe to our newsletter ✉️ decoratingdissidence.substack.com

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Friends, new and old! My book is 40% off with code EXMSTA24 for a short time. Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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For the launch of the Turner Prize @decodissidence.bsky.social published an interview I did with nominee Delaine Le Bas over the summer. We talked about stitching feminist histories, thinking back through our grandmothers & commemorating lost art from marginalised people. More: bit.ly/3XVqN4T

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RIP Faith Ringgold (1930-2024), who leaves an incredible legacy after a life dedicated to art &activism. In story quilts such as the French Collection, she used textile art to intervene in narratives of art history & modernism, rewriting the canon to centre the Black female gaze.

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Our Jan Modernist Maker Digest celebrates Clarice Cliff, 125 years after her birth ✨ Cliff’s journey from working-class girl to pioneer of Art Deco ceramics led her to study at the Royal Academy of Art & collab w/ leading 20thc artists, inc Barbara Hepworth & Vanessa Bell. ✉️https://t.co/R9Fy0gbRnG

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Festive woodcuts made by Marguerite Zorach c 1910s-30s to send as Christmas cards to the family’s friends and patrons 🎄✨

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Wishing all our followers a peaceful & relaxing festive period ✨ A huge thank you for your support this year 💖 our final newsletter of 2023 ft tips for exhibitions, books & opps to check out over the holidays - read it here: bit.ly/3GRT2rT

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Modernist jewellery designer Art Smith (1917-1982) was at the centre of a flourishing Black queer creative scene in mid-century Greenwich Village. He made pieces for Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday & Eleanor Roosevelt & his handcrafted designs featured in Vogue. More in our newsletter: bit.ly/41qnnHb

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So much to take in at Tate’s expansive Women in Revolt! exhibition, but here are three favourite picks (all happen to be Scottish & two textile artists ofc!) - Carole Gibbons, Rita McGurn & Elizabeth Radcliffe 🧶

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Fabric of Democracy: Propaganda Textiles from the French Revolution to Brexit at Fashion & Textile Museum explores how textiles act as ‘highly charged political objects’, from Blitz dresses, Communist bedspreads & Brexit tea towels. Check out our interview w/ curator Amber Butchart: bit.ly/3GiBB3m

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Join us on 15 November to hear @amyeelkins.bsky.social in conversation with Kabe Wilson! They'll be talking all things archives, methods and materials to celebrate 1 year of 'Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present' Free tix here: www.tickettailor.com/events/decor...

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To mark the launch of @lwhalen.bsky.social ‘a Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern, we celebrate textile artist Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968) in our newsletter. Zorach’s stunning tapestries, rugs & clothing designs fused modernist forms w/ craft techniques. 🔗 bit.ly/3FMwubh

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✉️ Check out our October craft & making round up for jobs & awards in the sector, plus spotlights on exciting new autumn exhibitions inc. Enam Gbewonyo at Nott New Art Exchange, the British Textile Bienniale & our round up of Frieze highlights! Don’t miss our latest updates, sign up: bit.ly/3FjEDnm

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Get your free tix! Kabe’s work is mind-meltingly-brilliant and we’re so excited about this conversation. And the chance to collaborate with attendees! www.tickettailor.com/events/decor...

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Join us on 15 November to hear @amyeelkins.bsky.social in conversation with Kabe Wilson! They'll be talking all things archives, methods and materials to celebrate 1 year of 'Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present' Free tix here: www.tickettailor.com/events/decor...

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Our Modernist Makers this month are Hilary Bourne & Barbara Allen, a craft couple who were collaborators in life & creative practice. Their overlooked contribution to British Modernism is the focus of Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft’s new exhibition Double Weave 🧶 Read more: bit.ly/3LPxhvA

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We’re delighted to host an online celebration of Amy Elkins’ book Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present on 15th Nov ⚡️Amy will be in conversation with the DD team & multimedia artist Kabe Wilson, whose work ft in her book 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/decor...

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Sunday read! Our interview with curator Graham Feyl on all things glitter, making and queer craft 💖 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/all-that-g...

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We spoke with artist and maker Alice Kettle, fresh from curating 'Threads: breathing life into new materials' Arnolfini (on until 1 Oct, Bristol) in our latest newsletter! 👇🧶 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/how-thread... “I use thread as a descriptive line, textured and rich"

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An absolutely magical drizzly afternoon with my capstone students at the Minneapolis Institute of Art! They’ve already done Polaroids and cyanotypes so WHAT a treat to see Warhol’s Polaroid photo album and an Anna Atkins original ❤️ in the archive 📸.

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Researcher Graham Feyl chatted to Decorating Dissidence about his work on queer craft networks & histories in NYC & San Francisco✨’How do nail polish, eyeliner, glitter act as craft materials when they’re not part of that canon? Embedded within that q are issues of class & access’✨ bit.ly/3PwOHOB

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Keep up to date with all things craft, making and the decorative from modernism to now via our newsletter! 🧶 decoratingdissidence.substack.com

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