Carrie Scott Huby

    Shakespeare Sonnet   Artist Book Re-claimed wool yarn hand knitted & felted, original watercolour on handmade paper, text. I love the visual language of repeating text over & over allowing it to form its own rhythm whilst becoming abstract in meaning. Shakespeare Sonnet   From you I have been absent in the spring                                                                    When proud-pied April, dressed all in his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in everything The heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him, Yet not the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odou...

  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.                

Production & play for the Words Are Not Enough Residency.  Enjoying the environment of the Leeds Library Room 700. Absorbing the solitude from other beings, surrounded by paper, words, random echoes, finding my rhythm of working. symbols      symbols and concertinas   more folds for my contribution to the installation one blank page

    Words Are Not Enough Artists were interviewed last Friday for The Book It List Leeds, for Made in Leeds channel. Made In Leeds    The Book It List Leeds  19th April 2016 6.30 - 7pm     A beautiful short interview capturing the essence of the Residency .   Artists being interviewed about the residency:   Gerry Turvey  Dance Artist Roger Bygott   Artist June Gersten Roberts  Filmmaker Rachel O'Neil   Dance Artist     Carrie Scott Huby invited book artist working in the background producing folded torn out book pages as part of the installation. 

www.wordsarenotenoughleeds.wordpress.com     Room700 at Leeds Central Library, a month long Residency during April 2016. Words Are Not Enough Performance Saturday 30th April 2pm.     Two dancers, one  artist, one film maker & me!  I have had a minor contribution by way of book art.   Carrie Scott Huby   weaver of image, process & story.

Shoddy Utility- as part of the Nest Your Kindness Collection Local flock fleece, Re-claimed Batley Hessian, Hand Felted Nests with folded paper text & lino block prints. CSH   Shoddy Utility- as part of the Nest Your Kindness Collection Re-claimed Utility Beryl Jug, local flock fleece with Batley re-claimed Hessian hand felted, folded paper text, hand printed. CSH     Shoddy Opening Wednesday 6th April 2016 at Live Art Bistro Leeds. A big thank you to Live Art Bistro as they were the only organisation who secured a place for us to exhibit which was accessible.   The above photos courtesy of Mat Dale.