Tales of the Unfinishable
I was emailed by a friend Jayne Globe who lives in the UK about this project. Jayne (who I had met while making comments on the online Guardian Quick Crossword) sent me a web address of "The Unfinishable" and I contacted Felicity Clarke and Hazel Connors to ask if I could send my collection of stitched foetuses. After filling in a questionnaire and submitting it, Felicity and Hazel contacted me and said they would accept my bag of lost babies. So off they went and I was quite relieved to have them out of my studio to clear the way for my next project.
I still had an idea and kept working on it until finally I did finish a small piece - this is at the bottom of the page.
This piece, along with dozens of other unfinished work is now touring the United Kingdom.
Here are some links to the project
The Unfinishable
But wait there is more.
In May this (2013) year we left the US to return to Australia to live. We visited the UK on the way back and we just happened to be staying in Lewes and heading to Exeter and discovered that "Tales of the Unfinishable' was showing in Newbury. We called in and met Felicity and Hazel and I took "Transmigration of the Soul" to show them the finished work. They said it was the first time anyone had finished it or at least showed them the finished work. There were a lot of visitors to the exhibition and Felicity and Hazel asked me to talk to many of the groups and show them the work that was finished. It would have been lovely to spend time with those two talented women however, we had to move on to as we were 'expected'.
A film (below) by Bea Holden about the Tales of the Unfinishable exhibition currently touring the UK. The exhibition is the outcome of a two year participative project created by artists Hazel Connors and Felicity Clarke which explored the reasons why many of us keep pieces of creative work whilst knowing they will never actually be completed. Intrigued by this behaviour and phenomenon, the artists have been collecting contributions of 'Unfinishable' textile pieces and their stories, ranging from everyday to traumatic, and have created a single artwork - a textile pavilion attributed to all project participants - out of over 200 submissions. Externally celebratory and displaying a huge range of textile skills and craft, the pavilion interior is more reflective and focuses on the stories both aurally and visually.
Both the exhibition and film, as well as the accompanying book, bring a subject often associated with guilt and failure into the open and celebrate the Unfinishable as a necessary and fascinating part of any creative endeavour.
The film was made by Bea Holden during the Tales of the Unfinishable exhibition at the Knitting and Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London, October 2012. Both artists believe that it captures the exhibition perfectly as well as the collaborative and democratic nature of the project.
Copy and paste the below link for the video.
I was emailed by a friend Jayne Globe who lives in the UK about this project. Jayne (who I had met while making comments on the online Guardian Quick Crossword) sent me a web address of "The Unfinishable" and I contacted Felicity Clarke and Hazel Connors to ask if I could send my collection of stitched foetuses. After filling in a questionnaire and submitting it, Felicity and Hazel contacted me and said they would accept my bag of lost babies. So off they went and I was quite relieved to have them out of my studio to clear the way for my next project.
I still had an idea and kept working on it until finally I did finish a small piece - this is at the bottom of the page.
This piece, along with dozens of other unfinished work is now touring the United Kingdom.
Here are some links to the project
The Unfinishable
But wait there is more.
In May this (2013) year we left the US to return to Australia to live. We visited the UK on the way back and we just happened to be staying in Lewes and heading to Exeter and discovered that "Tales of the Unfinishable' was showing in Newbury. We called in and met Felicity and Hazel and I took "Transmigration of the Soul" to show them the finished work. They said it was the first time anyone had finished it or at least showed them the finished work. There were a lot of visitors to the exhibition and Felicity and Hazel asked me to talk to many of the groups and show them the work that was finished. It would have been lovely to spend time with those two talented women however, we had to move on to as we were 'expected'.
A film (below) by Bea Holden about the Tales of the Unfinishable exhibition currently touring the UK. The exhibition is the outcome of a two year participative project created by artists Hazel Connors and Felicity Clarke which explored the reasons why many of us keep pieces of creative work whilst knowing they will never actually be completed. Intrigued by this behaviour and phenomenon, the artists have been collecting contributions of 'Unfinishable' textile pieces and their stories, ranging from everyday to traumatic, and have created a single artwork - a textile pavilion attributed to all project participants - out of over 200 submissions. Externally celebratory and displaying a huge range of textile skills and craft, the pavilion interior is more reflective and focuses on the stories both aurally and visually.
Both the exhibition and film, as well as the accompanying book, bring a subject often associated with guilt and failure into the open and celebrate the Unfinishable as a necessary and fascinating part of any creative endeavour.
The film was made by Bea Holden during the Tales of the Unfinishable exhibition at the Knitting and Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London, October 2012. Both artists believe that it captures the exhibition perfectly as well as the collaborative and democratic nature of the project.
Copy and paste the below link for the video.
Article that appeared in The MV Times, February, 2013
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