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Carrie Scott Huby Exhibiting a range Artist Books with “Shoddy”: a disability art project.

Artists' Book Market 2017 Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 May 2017 / 10.00-17.00   FREE BALTIC Gateshead      NE8 3BA   Carrie Scott Huby Exhibiting a range Artist Books with   “Shoddy” : a disability art project.     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. Carrie Scott Huby   Artist Books,  "Shoddy" a disability art project2 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.     On Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 May, 10.00-17.00, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary

Carrie Scott Huby & Shoddy at Pages 20th International Artist Book Fair The Tetley Leeds West Yorkshire

Pages 20 th International Artist Book Fair 10 am -5pm     4 th & 5th March 2017 The Tetley Hunslet Road Leeds LS10 1JQ   presents Shoddy      

Dewsbury Art Group Exhibition Batley Library & Art gallery 11th February - 25th March 2017

Belong two works exhibitied as part of the Dewsbury Art Group Spring Exhibition, Batley.       Belong Sculpted Artist Book , Block printed poem       Belong Sculpted Artist Book , block print       Traditional techniques, processes and experimentation are at the core of my practice coupled with ecological concerns.   Nature and environment are a continual inspiration which informs projects and collections.     ‘Lifeloom’ is a term I use to describe the narrative quality of my work producing artworks in paper, wool coupled with found and discarded objects. ‘Lifeloom’ represents locally sourced, re-cycled & re-purposed materials created in the mediums of Artist Books and Limited Edition Fine Art Prints weaving layers of image, process and story bound with inheritance skills and 1940’s utility ethos.   BELONG was initially a paper based   collection continuing with the Cherish project; which focuses my belief in cherishing o

Sing Sing Sing homage to William Blake

    Artist Book  Sing Sing Sing My pictorial poem in homage to the wondrous  William Blake reclaimed paper, watercolour, ink, free hand text & block print.   Artist Book  Sing Sing Sing, detail My pictorial poem in homage to the wondrous  William Blake reclaimed paper, watercolour, ink, free hand text & block print.   The inspiration for Sing Sing Sing is to reconnect the wild woman within us. To be called home, to remember who we are. To be at one with our natural selves & environment.