Packing my work ready to Exhibit at the Knitting and stitching show at Alexandra Palace next week.

 

Beginnings of new development work in connection to Mary Frances Heaton.
Following further research at the Mental Health Museum I have begun looking at Mary's Musical Connections.The Archives hold many music sheets and hymn sheets in their collection.I have found these fascinating to explore.
Mary's samplers are currently on display at the Welcome collection's Exhibition, Bedlam: the asylum and beyond.
https://wellcomecollection.org/bedlam

I received a copy of the embroiderers guild yesterday,having been prompted by the Alumni members of the Bradford School of Art,Thank you. I am producing additional work at the moment to exhibit at the Alexandra Palace 5th-9th October. I have been invited by the Embroiderers Guild,I haven't been before looking forward to it.  

Wakefield Mental Health Museum.
A collaboration between the Welcome collection and Wakefield Mental Health Museum Mary Francis Heatons samplers will be on display in London as part of the Exhibition Bedlam The Asylum & beyond from September 15th 2016.
https://wellcomecollection.org/bedlam

My work is on display along side the former patients samplers is Wakefield Mental Health Museum from September 7th  'Dark Corners' will be on loan to the Museum until June 2017. 
http://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/quality-innovation/mental-health-museum/

Returning to the Mental health museum on Thursday to follow up more research for my Scholarship with the Embroiderers Guild and to assist with final preparation for my work to go on display along side Mary Francis Heatons Samplers.Her work is truly amazing.

Looking forward to taking my work to the Mental Health Museum Wakefield tomorrow.It a real honour to place my work against Mary Francis Heatons samplers, she showed great resilience I really admire her.Many people suffered from mental health in the nineteenth century and like Mary were not rehabilitated back to their communities, but held for many years in establishments like the West Riding Pauper & Lunatic Asylum. 

Really pleased to have been awarded the Distinction Award by the Society of Designer Craftsmen.The Exhibition finishes on Sunday the 21st August. My work will then be on loan to the Mental Health Museum Wakefield to be Exhibited beside Mary Francis Heaton's Samplers, from whom I drew my inspiration
http://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk/quality-innovation/mental-health-museum/.