Shoddy Pop Up Exhibtion & Workshop Batley Vintage Day 28th May 2016

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 ideas that disabled people are second-rate. Instead, we think that “shoddy” could be used to describe the government’s treatment of disabled people, with cuts to welfare beneﬁts and public services.

Batley Library & Art Gallery,

Market Place, Batley, WF17 5DA. 01924 326021

http://batleyvintageday.co.uk

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During my Artist-in-Residence at Batley Art Gallery, West Yorks, Uk. Autum 2009 I was filmed talking about the the art work I was producing for that specific Aerist-in-Residence project. My huge thanks to my friend Si, I am now on You Tube: an interview with Carrie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reY2hF2gyO4 The film was made by Si King, Skater, Photographer, Film Maker , Lover of Adventure, along with snow100. Enjoy! Carrie. http://www.pinkmooninspires.co.uk/

... I love vast stretches of sea and sky, I feel I am on the edge of something, an anticipation hangs between, betwixt sea and sky...

...good to be back after mysteriously being locked out of my own blog... I have been reflecting upon themes and techniques which have been at my core prior to and at the outset of art college adventures, which reduce down to organic form, traditional techniques and exploring processes. New work embraces re-examining northern textile industrial heritage set within the Pennine regions of Yorkshire and Lancashire . Within this, is how the changing face of industry has impaired our familiar visual reference. MY response is to pay homage to L.S. Lowry's imagined Lancashire urban landscapes- which are inherent with my own Lancashire heritage , and create my own re-imagined urban and rural landscape. Fine art print and textile techniques such as hand felted fleece, new and vintage cloths are layered with textile techniques and process using stitch to draw together a commonality within textile narratives.

Carrie Scott Huby

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