The Just Sew Stories Exhibition at The Rooftop Arts Centre April 2019

This was a lovely opportunity for people to see each others completed work, read their stories and to share the work with the wider community.

Poster and previous photos by Warren Shaw - The Rooftop Arts centre

A premature birth with a happy ending

Sharing a love of books with her Grandchildeen

The 13 sequins represent 13 children

Inspired to read by J K Rowling and sharing this love of reading and all things harry Potter with children learning to read in a local school

This maker was The Cat Who Walked by herself at school.

"The Dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild—as wild as wild could be—and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him."

“This, O my Best Beloved is a story – a new and wonderful story – a story quite different from the other stories”― Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories

This story was dedicated to Gertrude Jekyll

Remembering the strong women in her 

family and life in Jarrow and Corby

The tale od three sisters - Evacuees from Birmingham

Sharing the space, enjoying the show.

This project was devised and delivered by The Eloquent Fold, artists Carole Miles and Phiona Richards with funding from Northamptonshire Community Foundation - The Constance Travis Endowment Fund. Many thanks to Swan Gardens for welcoming the group into their warm and inviting social spaces and to all the wonderful people at The Rooftop Arts centre who who helped to hang and publicise the show.

WILD PROJECTS #7 – HARD CORE – Test 2 - The Small Print

Other artists present are moving, singing, 

wrapping, slicing, spraying, making stories. 

We are all in our separate spaces, 

we are all together.

Not my apple but part of someone else's story.

Mono printing on the picnic bench by the apple tree, 

this ink is just water based, a bit too squishy, 

the results are unpredictable, 

there may be rain at any minute.

I press on.

She Embraces the Core of Things

Positive

Negative

There is Always Temptation

Positive Surrender

Negative Surrender

I invite Kate to place the prints and conkers

around the remaining parts of Test 1.

We have moved to a quite space

a picnic table behind the cottage

I am exploring secret spaces.

The prints are offered around the wrapped twigs 

and interspersed with the hard cores (conkers)

The Apple Queen and the Future Apple Queen visit.

Flock of Words - Transported - Crowland Library - Session 1

The Eloquent Fold had a wonderful morning in Crowland Library working with the public, creating the second Flock of Words for Transported Open Book project. 

It is a very welcoming library, buzzing with community activity and we had a lovely time sharing stories, some inspired by old maps. It has been fascinating to discover more about how people have come to live in the area and the journeys and places that connect us. 

We have plenty more book board birds to embellish and are looking for more stories, particularly from the Crowland Jackdaws.

Carolina stencilling designs on fabric 

for Crowland Book Snuggles

The Spalding Yellow Belly Book Snuggles

now have buttons on their vests and labels

The Eloquent Fold - Phiona Richards and I will be back at Crowland Library on the 25th June between 10.00 am and 12.30 pm for more comuunity creativity, Cake and Conversation! Please do come and join us! The activities are fun, free and open to all.

In the linked Flickr sets you can see all the Spalding Library birds and words.

and photographs from Crowland Day 1 here 

You can also follow us as we tweet during our workshops 

@Digifem

@RareNotions

@TransportedArt

and I will be adding images to my Flickr page and to my Instagram feed if you'd like to see what we've been doing during our workshops. 

For more information contact 

Rosie Lesurf-Olner, 

Arts Engagement Worker, 

Transported 

07747 271820  

TransportedRosie@litc.org.uk

Transported is a strategic, community-focused programme which aims to get more people in Boston Borough and South Holland enjoying and participating in arts activities, funded by Creative People and Places from Arts Council England.  For more information visit www.transportedart.com.