Carrie Scott Huby

  Shoddy Nests, hand shredded wool yarn making a fine shoddy laid on Re-claimed Batley Industrial Hessian         Shoddy - Nests Artist Books hand felted with West Yorkshire Fleece, some with Batley hessian, hand block printed books, text.   Photograph courtesy of Mat Dale.         Shoddy pop-up Exhibition Carrie Scott Huby Exhibiting and delivering Shoddy workshop Batley Vintage Day Saturday 28 th May 2016 Batley Library & Art Gallery   Shoddy Exhibition & Workshop Admission FREE   Shoddy is the name for new cloth made from woollen waste and recycled fabric. This original meaning is now largely unknown, and the word has come to mean of inferior quality, shabby or broken down. This is the starting point for an exhibition by disabled artists working with woollen or other yarns and fabrics, or recycled and reused textile materials. We are challenging i...

Remnants of a Performance:  Words Are Not Enough               Quotes from the audience:    The use of books bound for destruction was great, they provoked more emotion, thought and discussion than they could have sitting on a shelf or in a shredder. Thanks.   Enjoyable stimulating performance in a wonderful space-the journey from door to performance room felt part of the scene.   Fun and enchanting world, created from the library performed in the heart of the library, humanizing the book.