Textiles are interwoven throughout the cultural history of Lancashire, and for the whole of Oct 2019 I've been in residence with Queen Street Mill Textile Museum for the duration of the British Textile Biennial 2019 in Lancashire Burnley. This where I performed a small installation - 'Treadle Softly. Binding Her Braids Tightly" I have been doing archival research at Queen Street Mill Museum, where they hold the British Archive of Industrial Textiles Manufacturing.
For the rest of the Art in Manufacturing 2020 commission I have been in residency with industrial manufacturer John Spencer Textiles/Ian Mankin - a contemporary industrial weaving mill. This is part of the Art in Manufacturing residency, which places artists within industrial spaces of making to then culminate their research at Festival of Making in Blackburn in June 2020.
This residency has taken me to Gawthorpe Hall's global textile collection, Queen Street Mill's local heritage site, and John Spencer's innovative, and highly technical contemporary industrial weaving mill, which creates fabrics for designers all over the world.
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum