News & Articles Archive

2009

 

Rozanne Hawksley: In the Beginning - The Knitting and Stitching Show

filmed by Studio Galli   www.gallifilms.com 

Alexandra Palace, London: 8 Oct - 11 Oct

RDS, Dublin: 29 Oct - 1 Nov

Harrogate International Centre: 19 Nov - 22 Nov

 

The Game of Life:

A new exhibition exploring family life in Portsmouth between 1920 - 2009.

Portsmouth City Museum 4 July 2009 - 17 January 2010

If you are curious about other people, or the way things were done in the past, this is the exhibition for you. It is about people and their lives - the choices they made or had imposed upon them, the experiences they underwent. It contrasts how we live now with how our parents and grandparents lived.

http://www.portsmouthmuseums.co.uk/

Telephone: +44 (0)23 9282 7261

 

Bending the Line - The 62 Group

The Hub  11 July - 6 Sept 2009

Bending the Line will be one of largest exhibitions ever staged by the 62 Group of textile artists. Located in our vast main gallery space, the exhibition will allow for creativity and experimentation by the group. The gallery will be awash with vibrant and diverse work by some of the most interesting national and international artists working with textiles today. The title 'Bending the Line' alludes to the method by which these art works have been created, and nods towards the literary inspiration behind some of the pieces. Textiles are made by bringing together lines of fibres or spun threads which can be interlaced, woven, knotted, knitted, stitched, tied, layered, stiffened, or bent. The element of line is fundamental and is exploited for reasons of structure, drawing and colour mixing.

 http://www.thehubcentre.info/exhibitions/exhibitiondetails/summer09/bendingtheline.html

    

In Memoriam: Remembering the Great War - The Imperial War Museum

30 September 2008 - 6 September 2009

To commemorate the ninetieth anniversary of the Armistice, Imperial War Museum London is mounting a major exhibition that will look at the personal stories of those who lived, fought and died during the First World War both overseas and on the home front. Featuring fascinating and previously unseen material, this exhibition will use the experiences of over 90 individual men, women, servicemen and civilians to illustrate the different aspects and key events of the Great War and its aftermath. Much of the material will be drawn from the Imperial War Museum's own collections that were established during the First World War.

http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/95/index.html

 

Lecture by Rozanne Hawksley

12 noon Sun 31st May 2009

Ruthin Craft Centre Park Road, Ruthin, Denbighshire, LL15 1BB

To coincide with the final weekend of the Rozanne Hawksley solo show at the Ruthin Crafts Centre, Rozanne has offered to give a special lecture for the Textile Society. She is also giving a workshop the day before her lecture, limited to about 10 and to be booked directly with the Ruthin.

Dr Ruth Richardson (author of The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy) opened the exhibition and spoke of Rozanne's work:

"Here, I who deal with words, find words difficult to find. Her work is so articulate that precision seems required, but so suggestive that it is hard to attain. Rozanne's art is truly interdisciplinary and not easy to categorise. I think of it as sculpture in unconventional materials: colour, pain, decay, vulnerability, tenderness, laughter, survival. Mary Schoeser, who has thought long and hard about Rozanne's artworks, calls them 'transcendental observations', speaks of them as 'establishing an emotional dialogue between object and audience...' and I think they can be understood both as sculpture and as object poetry, poetry which does not flinch in the face of some of the most painful historical events, and which marks head-on, the impact of the wars and the destruction of the century just past. Like us, these works are fragmentary and mutable, soft and bony, and in their extraordinary archaeology of the deep meanings of the human predicament are - like Rozanne herself - valiant. There can be no doubt, as you'll see as you go round this fine exhibition, that her dextrous skills of eye, needle, pencil and imagination have created a most remarkable body of work which addresses in the most fundamental - and often disturbing ways - the deepest fabrics of the human body, and of the human heart."

Janie Lightfoot e: janie@janielightfoot.co.uk

Textile Conservation Restoration studio, 21 Park Parade, London NW10 4JG

 

SOFA Chicago 2006

Rozanne Hawksley and Audrey Walker (Ruthin Craft Centre), neighbors in Pembrokeshire, West Wales, share the vision and techniques they have acquired in their combined experiences of more than a century in the world of fiber art. While Walker is primarily interested in color, light and space relationships, Hawksley is interested in dark imagery and symbolic complexity. Of their long-standing professional and personal acquaintance Walker, former Head of the Embroidery/Textiles Department at Goldsmith College, said, "There are so many startling differences in our work although we both get so much from the conversations we now share...(On) long car journeys on the way to exhibitions, I 'm often amused that while I'm taking in astonishing color relationships, Roz will be noticing every dead animal at the side of the road!"

www.wai.org.uk/index.cfm?UUID=351E3CB9-65BF-7E43-3F93D247F8D69A5B

 

Embroidery Magazine

Rozanne Hawksley and Audrey Walker In Conversation 2004

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The Poor Relation: Ecclesiastical Embroidery by Judith Peacock

http://embroidery.embroiderersguild.com/2003-4/peacock.htm

Article taken from Volume 54, No. 4

 

War & the Visual Language of Flowers by Ann Elias

http://www.wlajournal.com/20_1-2/234-250%20Elias.pdf

Ann Elias is a Senior Lecturer in Art Theory at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney in Australia, where she coordinates an Art Theory program, teaches undergraduates, and supervises postgraduates. Her research is primarily in the discipline of Art History, with specialisation in still life painting, and aesthetics and war. Her most recent work is concerned with flower painting, war and melancholy. An article published in the Journal of the Australian War Memorial, discusses the cultural significance of the flower in World War 1. She also writes and publishes on contemporary art with an emphasis on contemporary Australian and New Zealand art.

 

Goldsmiths image archive:

http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/constance-howard/narrative-threads/gallery/rhawksley/