Decorating Dissidence

Fragment Found: An interview with curator Eva Jack Piecing together shared heritage and histories, from the ground to the gallery...

Fragment Found: An interview with curator Eva Jack

Piecing together shared heritage and histories, from the ground to the gallery:
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Myth and making: An interview with Jonathan Baldock Pushing craft mediums into the monumental and the monstrous...

‘I love pushing mediums into the monumental and the monstrous’ 🍃

Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits:

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Our latest post is on The Philosophy of Vegetable Dyes with Ethel M. Mairet!

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Photo of Gertrud Arndt

Gertrud Arndt aspired to study architecture but was redirected to the weaving workshop due to her gender; she later made significant contributions to photography 📸 #GertrudArndt #Architcture #Study #Bauhaus

Towards the end of her long, colourful life, Beatrice Wood became known as the Mama of Dada and attributed her great longevity to ‘art books, chocolate & young men’! Read more in @decodissidence.bsky.social newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...

Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) is our March Modernist Maker ✨ From Dada ingenu to maker of dazzling ceramics, Wood spent her life in pursuit of shock & defying boundaries ✨

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Modernist Maker Digest 016: Leigh Bowery How the taboo busting performance artist brought the Dada spirit into a new decade...

From Dada to Taboo! Our modernist maker feature celebrates provocateur Leigh Bowery 💚

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Erin M Riley is a textile artist who pushes weaving to the limit in her mission to explore the challenges & contradictions of life in the internet age. In her work the labour of making & surviving is made visible. Read our interview with Erin, on her 1st solo show ‘Look Back At It’: bit.ly/40Eci5n

Catch up with our Modernist Maker series – from Mina Loy to Bauhaus weavers, Ruth Asawa, Art Smith and more!

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Our January roundup is out now over on Substack. We’ve been easing into the new year with Malene Barnett’s Crafted Kinship 📕 + the Women in Revolt! podcast, & planning trips to Ditchling Museum of Craft’s Tadek Beutlich exhibition 🧵
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Thinking about Gertrude Stein this morning:

A sentence is an imagined masterpiece. A sentence is an imagined frontispiece. In looking up from her embroidery she looks at me. She lifts up the tapestry. It is partly. Think in stitches. Think in settlements. Think in willows.

Work with us - Royal Society of Literature Literature for Everyone The RSL team is led by an ethos of respect and compassion for each other and the communities we work with, and these values are reflected in everything we do. We believe litera...

Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026.

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✨ Our first Modernist Maker feature of 2025 celebrates modern artists’ jewellery - from Peggy Guggenheim’s fabulous earring collection to Surrealist accessories crafted by a master goldsmith and jewellery made by Picasso for friends & lovers ✨

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🌀 In our weekly newsletter, join us for a tour of The Cosmic House - a peculiar wonder of postmodernism
🪬Designed by & for Charles Jencks, the anthropomorphic home is currently host to a site specific installation by artists Tai Shani. Shani sets up a sensuous, surreal dialogue with the interior.

Modernist Maker Digest 014: The Omega Workshops How Bloomsbury's bohemians expressed radical modernity through decorative objects...

Read our spotlight on the Omega Workshops ✨ ‘How Bloomsbury's bohemians expressed radical modernity through decorative objects’ ✨ in our newsletter & subscribe for weekly features on radical craft & making : open.substack.com/pub/decorati...

Our monthly modernist digest looks at the work of the Omega Workshops, inspired by a visit to Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston at Sotheby’s - our faves inc. Wyndham Lewis’ striking orange robe & Vanessa Bell’s The Party (the painting thought to have inspired Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway!)

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

Modernist and Avant-Garde Women starter pack

I have made a starter pack for researchers working on modernist and avant-garde women. Absolutely not comprehensive, just put some names down to get the list started - please let me know if you want to be removed/added!

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Review: Jeremy Deller's banners unpick Britishness An exhibition of the Turner Prize winner's banners, made in collaboration with Ed Hall, in Glasgow...

📩 Jeremy Deller and Ed Hall's banners make space for William Morris, Morris dancers, acid house, brass bands, gurning competitions, and art to coexist...

#banner #textile #craft

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👋 Hello! We're Decorating Dissidence - a project documenting craft and making from modernism to now

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For the launch of the Turner Prize @decodissidence.bsky.social published an interview I did with nominee Delaine Le Bas over the summer. We talked about stitching feminist histories, thinking back through our grandmothers & commemorating lost art from marginalised people. More: bit.ly/3XVqN4T

RIP Faith Ringgold (1930-2024), who leaves an incredible legacy after a life dedicated to art &activism. In story quilts such as the French Collection, she used textile art to intervene in narratives of art history & modernism, rewriting the canon to centre the Black female gaze.

Our Jan Modernist Maker Digest celebrates Clarice Cliff, 125 years after her birth ✨ Cliff’s journey from working-class girl to pioneer of Art Deco ceramics led her to study at the Royal Academy of Art & collab w/ leading 20thc artists, inc Barbara Hepworth & Vanessa Bell. ✉️https://t.co/R9Fy0gbRnG

Festive woodcuts made by Marguerite Zorach c 1910s-30s to send as Christmas cards to the family’s friends and patrons 🎄✨

Wishing all our followers a peaceful & relaxing festive period ✨ A huge thank you for your support this year 💖 our final newsletter of 2023 ft tips for exhibitions, books & opps to check out over the holidays - read it here: bit.ly/3GRT2rT

Modernist jewellery designer Art Smith (1917-1982) was at the centre of a flourishing Black queer creative scene in mid-century Greenwich Village. He made pieces for Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday & Eleanor Roosevelt & his handcrafted designs featured in Vogue. More in our newsletter: bit.ly/41qnnHb