8 April 7pm BST Free Talk as part of Textile Talks for SAQA

Textile Talk SAQA Gillian Cooper Fragments of the Past

I’m giving a Textile Talk about some recent work on Wednesday 8th April at 7pm BST.  It’s free to watch – register here

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nk2Ze3pNQH21U_N6LLJlbg#/registration

and it will be available on YouTube afterwards. 

 

Fragments of the Past

One step, one mark, one stitch. On their own, they are fairly meaningless, but repeated and gathered together, these ordinary everyday acts turn into something more consequential – a walk, a drawing, a textile. This presentation shares Gillian Cooper’s reflections on a journey through 4 years of process driven practice, walking, drawing and stitching, using the framework of a Masters in Contemporary Art and Archaeology with the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland. Initially inspired by the layers of history beneath her feet as she walked locally, via a diversion along the Loch Katrine Aqueduct, hidden in plain sight in the local countryside, before circling back to the gestures of walking, drawing and stitching themselves and their overlapping repetitions and rhythms.