Connected By Threads
Gill Crawshaw has created an illustrated essay that tells a story of disabled women and textiles. She makes connections between textile art created by contemporary disabled women artists and needlework produced by women incarcerated in institutions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Like those people who turned to genealogy during lockdown to research their family history, Gill aims to show connectivity between one generation and the next, highlighting kinship, shared practices and traditions, driven by her curiosity about disabled needleworkers and textile artists.
Gill Crawshaw has created an illustrated essay that tells a story of disabled women and textiles. She makes connections between textile art created by contemporary disabled women artists and needlework produced by women incarcerated in institutions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Like those people who turned to genealogy during lockdown to research their family history, Gill aims to show connectivity between one generation and the next, highlighting kinship, shared practices and traditions, driven by her curiosity about disabled needleworkers and textile artists.
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Raisa Kabir, NO PROTECTION,
2020-21
Tufted woollen yarn
Photo: Tiu Makkonen
Image description:
Six tufted squares of variegated bright
yarn arranged in two rows of three on a
white wall. NO PROTECTION is
spelled out in block capitals across all
the squares, two letters per square.
Many threads are left hanging loose
and the surfaces are irregular, so the
letters are a little blurred. The squares
are different colour combinations: black
on red and blue, red on yellow and
blue, navy on pink and blue and so on.
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