Exhibition planning details.

Now that we are into the final planning stages of our exhibition at Milton Keynes Literary Festival please note the following and help out where you can.

1. Hanging the display on Friday 21 Sept.    We have several volunteers to help but we could do with at least 1 more.    If you can help, please let Sally know as she is co-ordinating volunteers.      This would be from 5 pm on the Friday evening when we get access to the room.
2. Stewarding - we are short of stewards for Saturday, so again if you can possibly help out, please let Sally know.
3. Finished works - Sheila has kindly offered to produce listings of works and signage.    See below the information you need to supply for each piece you are submitting -  please e mail the information to Sheila and myself no later than 1 Sept.    If we don't hear from you by then, we’ll assume you’re not intending to anything into the exhibition on this occasion.

• A3 pieces:
• high res photograph of finished piece;   
• your name as you wish it to appear in the printed literature;
• ensure your name is on the back of the piece and that you have attached a hanging sleeve and batten.    The hanging team will need to attach fishing line to the batten to suspend works from the hanging rail on the wall.
• Literary pieces:
• high res photograph of finished piece;
• title of piece;
• inspiration source (in as few words as possible please!) or quotation as appropriate;
• size of finished piece;
• your name as you wish it to appear in the printed literature;
• ensure your name and the title of the work is attached to the back of the piece(s).   Again, hanging sleeve and batten per A3 piece.   

All finished pieces need to be brought to our September meeting (Monday 10th).    We know several people can’t be at that meeting so they will need to make arrangements to get their work either to Kislingbury on the 10th or to the venue on 21st Sept.

August activities

The group met just after many spent days at the Festival of Quilts. Much of the day was spent discussing the work that had been seen at the NEC and the work that will be hung at the Milton Keynes Literary Festival at the end of September.

This was the beginning of the group's pieces for our MK exhibition:

Members are reminded that their completed work must be brought to the meeting on Monday September 10th or given direct to Sally or Sarah by this date.

Members were also working on the following pieces:

Sheila

Sally

Sheena

Laura

Sarah

Chris

Next meeting Monday 13th August

Reminder that our next meeting is on Monday 13th August after Festival of Quilts.

Please bring along your pieces for the "

More exhibition Information

Jill has now sorted the measurements for our space at Milton Keynes Literary Festival. Her comments are below.

  Last week the steering committee confirmed with Holiday Inn that we can have access from 5pm on Friday to set up.

"I have now viewed the room at the Holiday Inn.  The wall that we can use is not as large as first thought measuring 26 feet.  It has a bar running the length which would take picture hooks or similar and this bar is 6 feet 3 inches above the skirting board.  Background wall colour is a sort of pale greeny/grey/cream.  I have attached a photo of the bar.  This would lend itself to smaller pieces and in view of this I think we should limit any pieces to a maximum length of 5 feet.  In this room there is also an alcove which is about 8 feet long and 18 inches wide which could perhaps take one of our quilt stands."

Amanda Hislop Workshop

On Tuesday we enjoyed a day on the theme of Abstracted Land.... Sixteen of us ready to explore the theme in our own ways.Here are some of the pieces we worked on in their raw state and as work in progress.

After collaging and painting the A3 sheets we then cut them to produce small books, each page showcasing an element of the initial sheet, concentrating the mind on detail.
These little books are very difficult to photograph and do them justice.

Amanda Hislop workshop requirements July 9th

The July 9th meeting is a workshop with Amanda Hislop with the title "Abstracted Land...."
Amanda says this day is: "A design workshop using drawn lines, colour washes, wax resist, collage and folding techniques to free up and create expressive compositions for development into stitch. Using the landscape as a starting point loose expressive mark making using a combination of drawn marks and torn collage work to create dynamic simplified compositions which can be fragmented using folding techniques to generate surprising abstract compositions."

Requirements:

• Inspirational material relating to landscape
• A sketchbook and drawing materials of choice including pens of various thiscknesses
• A collection of brushes
• Needles for hand stitch into paper (optional)
• Scissors
• Thin plastic, clear or white without writing to cover tables
• Cheap baby wipes for cleaning up
• Apron, overall, plastic gloves if wanted
• A hairdryer

Papers, threads and art materials and resources for student use will be supplies at cost of £5. Do bring any papers and materials you may have to add to the collection available.

Exhibition Publicity

Exhibition of
Literary Textile Arts
Art to Stitch

Holiday Inn, Central Milton Keynes

Friday 21 - Monday 24 September

MK Lit Fest will be hosting a specially commissioned exhibition of textile art inspired by books, authors, writing and reading.

Fabric artists at the cutting edge of quilt making, the group work in textiles to create innovative and dynamic art. Members all have different specialist skills and approaches to design and contemporary quilt making, some approach the creative process from an art base and others from an experiential perspective; each producing very different and varied 2 and 3D textiles, art textiles and wall art.