Textile Flora Spring Exhibition
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May” (Shakespeare, sonnet 18) Wind-scattered hawthorn seeds caught in dark places, hybridising and corrupting gentle blooms; wind-shaken blossom dissolving into black earth; … Continue reading
Textile Flora Winter Exhibition
Textile Flora standing in silent winter landscapes; trees clothed in hard frosts and a falling of snow, dark trees laced against the pale light. Lost leaves reveal secret rookeries and … Continue reading
Textile Flora Telling Tales
Textile Flora growing from spoken words; tall Alliums from formal polite gardens and wild distorted bulbs from secretive, dark, untidy corners. The Wild Wood and the rooky wood move darkly … Continue reading
Textile Flora
The Textile Flora collection takes inspiration from the structures of nature and from the prickly, thorny inhabitants of waste ground and forgotten corners. I use recycled threads and fabrics, dyeing … Continue reading
Utilityware (2013)
Exhibition: Making Futures: Lifecycles of Material Worlds 24 sept – 7 Dec 2013 at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery (http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/) Curated by Elaine Dye (www.craftingspaces.co.uk) Utilityware (2013) The tea … Continue reading
Reviews for ‘Mapping The Future’ exhibition
“Claire Crompton’s ‘Sheep Country’ was an enigmatic segmented form atop a high plinth. Another interpretation of landscape, the paradoxical hardness of the three dimensional contour map reflected an existence … Continue reading
MakeUnmakeRemake
MakeUnmakeRemake (2010) materials: jacob, shetland and merino handspun yarn exhibited: Off the Beaten Track at Devonport Guildhall, Plymouth 28 May to 2 June 2010
fleece first
circle fabric chair cover (2011) materials: blue faced leicester yarn, blue faced leicester handspun yarn exhibited: Fleece First at Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey, Devon 24 September to 13 … Continue reading
sheep country 2003-2010 (2012)
Source of Data: The British Wool Marketing Board – producer price schedule archive (http://www.britishwool.org.uk/priceschedarchlist.asp?pageid=56) Materials: Herdwick wool, Merino wool, wire Construction: Crochet Each slice of the landscape represents a different … Continue reading
exhibition: mapping the future
work by (l to r): Liz Harding (on wall), Claire Crompton (on plinth), Doreen Barnaville (hanging), Brenda Miller (on wall and chair), Jane Barker (hanging), Carolyn Sibbald (hanging and floor), Debby … Continue reading
orange box
orange box (2011) materials: waste handknitting yarns, fusible fibres, wire, glass beads
Give Fleece A Chance
Article written for The Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers – issue Spring 2011 Give Fleece A Chance connecting wool producers to wool users, one sheep at a time By … Continue reading
