Beau Brannick (they/them)

A work in progress piece of cross stitch which is lay on a pink and white floor. Beau's hand is in the frame as well as some thread, bird shaped embroidery scissors and a sewing fabric book. The cross stitch has different motifs stitched in red, green and black including birds, trees and flowers.

Have spent the last week whilst I've been sick learning some Tatreez embroidery, which is a traditional form of Palestinian embroidery 🪡

I've learnt it via a gorgeous website called www.tatreeztraditions.com which offers how to and free downloads of motifs 🌲

04.01.2025 19:58 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Alice, Beau's girlfriend is sat behind a desk with a till at the museum. They have orange hair, a red jumper, and are sipping a brew.

Nothing says 'i work in a small charity museum' like my girlfriend volunteering on the front of desk this weekend like a true comrade 🫡

09.12.2024 12:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Does everyone who wants to do a PhD worry about the gap in their work experience during those years?

I fear that unfortunately now a days, academia alone is not enough for employers, especially in the museum sector. They want you to work for your PhD AND have a job alongside.

04.12.2024 08:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New to Bluesky? Here's your weekly reminder that we maintain an Arts & Culture Starter Pack, filled with museums, libraries, galleries and creators that you can follow in a single click.

If you're an organisation that's interested in being added, please DM us!

go.bsky.app/HPQsZAu

28.11.2024 12:36 — 👍 318    🔁 104    💬 24    📌 11

An embroidery which shows a woman (mother goose) who is riding a goose and wearing a black witches hat, blue cape, and white dress. She is riding in front of a crescent moon with blue background.

This is favourite embroidery, it was done by a soldier who was injured during World War II and stayed at the First Eastern General Hospital in Cambridge.

I think a lot about the links between injury, disability and mental health and how textiles is woven through these histories 🪡🪿

26.11.2024 18:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A magazine open with a hand lay on it. There is a photo of an embroidered brown bird, and a title which says 'Coping through stitch: Recovering soldiers in hospital and the threads that passed the time.'

A double page spread of the magazine which has more photos and writing. All the photos show embroideries, one of mother goose with a witches hat riding a goose with the moon behind her, one of two girls in dresses and bonnets, and one of blue birds and cherry blossom.

I wrote a piece for @shcg.bsky.social newsletter magazine about some beautiful embroideries at the Museum of Cambridge. In my role as Collections Officer I curated 'The Stories Behind the Stitches' which has sadly ended now, but got to research all about these pieces stitched by injured soldiers. 🪡

26.11.2024 09:18 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

A sculpture of a deer with patterns but he has a silly goofy smile.

Another sculpture of an ant eater and he has a pattern all over his body.

A sculpture of an armadillo, he has a lovely speckled face and brown shell.

A sculpture of a pig who is dark brown with patterns.

Look at these good guys at the @sainsburycentre.bsky.social new exhibition 'Why Do We Take Drugs?' - obsessed with this artists work 🦌

25.11.2024 14:14 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Change your bio rn to 'freak for samplers'

21.11.2024 07:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I saw someone sat in Five Guys in Norwich just... wearing a 'Trump, Make America Great Again' top... I'm too tired for this kinda nonsense

20.11.2024 17:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Screenshot of the Quilt Index website, featuring a quilt overlain with a text block featuring the site's title

"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org

19.11.2024 19:48 — 👍 434    🔁 153    💬 27    📌 18

Alice and Beau next to the Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt.

A close up of a cross stitch which has a pink square with text saying 'trans people will live forever'.

A hand holding a cross stitch in progress of a heart made up of different stitches with pansies in the middle.

A cross stitch of a sample which has a floral border, and a house with two figures in dresses either side. It has 'Beau Alice 2020' stitched.

Hello! My name is Beau and I work in museums, am a big fan of textiles, created the Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt with my partner Alice, and do things like embroidery and cross stitch myself 🪡

17.11.2024 23:10 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0