Buttonhole project: Participation Stitch
Thursday 4 June 10.00am to 4.00pm
I invite you to be part in the film piece Participation Stitch. As an artist my intention is to collaborate with volunteers to create a contemporary response to the stitching of the buttonholes by the mice in the story of the Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter.
I am keen to work people who would like to share the skill of hand stitching buttonholes. I am planning to gather twenty-one volunteers to stitch one buttonhole each on 4 June. All volunteers will need to be prepared to be filmed as the event will be edited into a short film.
The filming will take place at -
44AD, Abbey Street, Bath on Thursday 4 June - 10am to 4pm
In preparation there will be a workshop at 44AD for anyone available who would like to practice on -
Tuesday 19 May - 11am to 1pm
The idea for the stitching event is a development from my films. In these works, two women meet for the first time and during their conversations they talk about their connections to the story of the Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter. Take a look at the film below:
In the story, mice stitch the one and twenty buttonholes because the tailor was taken ill. I propose to film a contemporary response with twenty-one people gathering to hand stitch the twenty-one buttonholes as stitched by the mice in Beatrix Potter’s story. Through this project my intention is to explore the potential of sharing skills and my aim is to generate social conversations through this activity. My key interest is how skills are used today before they are lost forever.
I am interested in the historical representation of women’s art through textiles, its links to craft and domesticity and its relationship to current practice in order to comment on how women are represented in contemporary art.
If you would like to be involved in the project please contact me via email or telephone.
Brenda Miller
01453 843301
07980 008046