CHRISTINE STANFORD

TEXTILE ARTIST AND TUTOR

Farfield Mill

Garsdale Road Sedbergh LA10 5LW

Open 10am – 4pm Wednesday – Sunday

Exspiravite 

Touring Exhibition

Expiravite is a touring exhibition which launched at Gawthorpe Hall and was influenced by the Rachel Kay Shuttleworth Textile Collection. I decided that I wanted to pay tribute to Rachel who was the last person to live in the house and was very keen to invite local people in to practice arts and crafts. The dress that I created for this exhibition is made from layers of painted teabag paper which has small images trapped between the layers. I apply hot wax and then iron it out to leave a tactile feel to the material and embellish the paper with free machine embroidery. The elongated dress which has a large collar and extra long sleeves was designed to have a prescience in the window of the gallery. To pay tribute to Rachel Kay Shuttleworth I trapped copies of fragments of the notes written in green ink into resin buttons.

 

 

The dress and other work can be seen at Farfield mill in Sedbergh from 11th January – 2nd April 2023. https://www.farfieldmill.org/

 

 

The Howarth Art Gallery Accrington

November 2019 – February 2020

Retracing Steps

Retracing steps was the perfect opportunity for me to revisit my love of the opulence and grandeur of costume as an art form. My work has always had a strong theme of social history running through it  with the emphasis being about woman’s lives. The Haworth Art Gallery is the ideal setting for historical costume giving me inspiration in abundance. I decided to look back at my work from my days at Manchester Metropolitan University where I spent a lot of my time studying costume at the Platt Hall of costume and the Fashion Museum in Bath. Although I do get commissions to make costumes, with my work I like to challenge myself by using unconventional materials.

Retracing Steps

The work in this exhibition is based on costume from the 1900’s which would have been the time when the Haworth was the residency of William Haworth and his sister Anne. The process of my work is a development of painting designs onto teabag paper and trapping images between layers of hot wax which I manipulate with stitch, pleating, touching, folding and embellished with buttons, and ribbons. The tools are a creation from looking at sewing implements that would have been used regularly.

christinestanford2020@gmail.com

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      CHRISTINE STANFORD

      Mixed Media Memories Workshops

       

      If you enjoy experimenting with mixed media techniques including embroidery, collage and montage, then this is a great opportunity to create a mixed media embroidery based on memories. You will be using layering techniques, with images and text, papers and fabrics, which will be fused together with wax. You will be able to embellish your work with embroidery, buttons, ribbons or lace and add this to your embroidered piece of memories. 

      The day will start with an introduction to my work looking at the techniques that I use to develop mixed media artwork for exhibitions and craft fairs. Followed by demonstrations and practical sessions where you will be shown how to develop your own techniques and processes

      You will need to bring photocopied images from your personal collection of photographs or if you don’t have any, there will be some available on the day, all other materials will be provided unless you have your own that you would like to use. There will be sewing machines available on the day, please let me know if you can bring your own machine.

       

       

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      About

      I am a professional textile artist with a

      BA Hons Degree in embroidery from

      Manchester Metropolitan University. 

      I exhibit and sell my work nationally

       run short courses and workshops from

      my studio and teach art

      and textile in Schools and work

      on community projects.