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, Build me a loom off of your back
and your stomach..., 2018
Performance at The Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Photo: Angela Dennis
Image description:
A photograph of the artist sitting on a small rug on the
wooden floor of an art gallery, textiles and costume
behind glass on the back wall. She is brown-skinned
and wears a black sleeveless dress. Her feet are bare,
painted red, with ghungroos - dancing bells - round her
ankles. She bends over, focused on her feet. Behind her
is a large loom, about five feet high and deep, warp
threads and rope hanging from it.
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