Dimensions
170 x 220 x 13mm
'Grafting Propriety' centres on developing a series of artworks from research undertaken within the The Collection Museum's textile archive. With a focus is on the embroidery archive, most specifically a Jacobean crewel embroidered bedspread rarely seen outside archival storage, 'Grafting Propriety' explores how textile methodology can be recreated in drawing, the drawn stitched line and how textile agendas can be addressed without the use of material. Featuring photographs of various archival pieces, early and new artworks, and essays from leading experts in the field, the book will accompany Danica Maier's Stitch and Peacock exhibition, acting as a resource and documentation for the overall project. The work falls within a wide international context linking the Kaunas Art Biennale: TEXTILE; Topographies of the Obsolete as part of the British Ceramics Biennale, 2013; The Subversive Stitch Revisited: The Politics of Cloth symposium, 2013; and Thread Lines, The Drawing Center New York, 2014. 73 colour and b/w
