With less than a week to go to the third Resting Place event, a project that I began back in 2012 my thoughts have been very much preoccupied, once again, with pillowcases. When I began researching for and developing Resting Place back in 2012 I wrote 2 blog posts about pillowcases (read them here and here) and these very early thoughts became the basis for the pillowcases installation that resulted and has now become the core of the project. For each event the pillowcases ha

Two years ago I began developing Resting Place and this blog recorded much of the research and development. Resting Place has now become a stand alone collaborative project and this blog has become more of an outlet for my entire practice. With that in mind I have taken the decision to change the name and from today this site will be called Embroider the Truth. When I set it up I used this as the domain name because I was undecided as to the title of the project and wanted to

I have been fairly silent about Resting Place lately but now that Silent Cacophony and The Silence of Knitting are finished the planning for RP can continue. We are busy researching potential venues and the website will be launched very soon. Resting Place: Ellington Park will take place towards the end of March 2014 and details will be announced as soon as it is finalised I had a very busy and interesting day in London on Tues 3rd Dec looking at potential venues and making p

On Mon 11th Nov at 11am people will be joining together in a common task, that of knitting in silence a piece of shamrock lace using white wool. In Margate, Ticehurst, Newark, Liverpool, Calais and Sydney  – silent knitting The pattern for the lace comes from the archive of WW1 VAD Nurse Clarice Spratling. This pattern, handwritten in her notebook dated 1908 is one amongst several others but seemed the most appropriate to use. The symbol of a four leaf clover has been seen a

The application to ACE was a very stressful and time-consuming process and one that would not have been made possible without the unwavering support from John McKiernan of Platform-7. The decision to take Resting Place forward as a collaboration has proved itself to be the right one. There is now a lot of work to be done in order for the first live Resting Place event to take place on Sept 29th 2013 in Ellington Park, Ramsgate and more news will be posted soon. In the meantim