deborah bowness - artist commision
Art trail and commissions. League of Artisans and OUTSIDE have commissioned three major artists to bring to life oral histories from Leek’s textile past.
Venues: Walls across Leek - an online and printed map of paste-up sites will be published in advance of Leek Textile Week.
Open: 23-29 September 2024, day and night
FREE
If walls could talk, what stories would they tell about Leek’s diverse industrial heritage and the lives of local people? If walls could talk, they would share their many stories, revealing the layers of history contained within. Deborah Bowness will take wallpaper onto the streets, creating a trail of site specific outdoor paste-ups covering 300 metres of wall space. Her work will be informed by oral histories gathered from Leek’s textile workers, bringing to life heritage stories of the mills.
Artist, designer and maker, Deborah Bowness grew up in Yorkshire and has been designing, making and exhibiting wallpaper since 1999, working from her studio in St Leonards-on-Sea. A graduate of the MA Mixed Media course at the Royal College of Art, Deborah has developed a wallpaper and printmaking practice, designing and screen printing to commission for private and commercial clients including, Sothebys, Habitat, Paul Smith and Universal Records. Deborah has exhibited extensively in exhibitions and her prints are held in collections worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Flag Making workshop • Sat 14th September
Workshop 1: 11am-12pm Workshop 2: 12pm-1pm
FREE
Venue: The Nicholson Institute
Open to all
Wallpaper maker Deborah Bowness and painter Oliver Crowther invite you to a flag making workshop. We will consider flags as visual language that draws on a variety of influences and applications: from heraldry to semaphore; state identity to public installation and street celebration. To mark Leek Textile Week we will be considering the legacy the textile industry left on the townscape through the building of mills the community that evolved in and around them.
We will explore a variety of processes including fabric collage, block printing and painting.
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