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Batool Showghi – ZOOM Workshop – Designing and making a concertina book or a functional textile piece.

April 3 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm

£10.00 – £30.00

Using a variety of materials – eg. paper, fabric, photographs, leaves, colour pencils – participants will create small pieces of imagery and stitch into them.  The finished article can be a concertina book, or a small art piece.
Materials and equipment
Participants can pre prepare the “canvas” as a concertina book prior to the workshop.  Instructions for this are here …. Concertina book_Batool Showghi
The following is a list of suggested equipment and materials.  The workshop can use hand sewing alone or machine stitching.

Sewing machine (optional)
Recycled materials useful for the project,
Paper, different fabrics, canvas, fabric or paper with printed imageries, photographs, prints, paintings, any suitable soft stich able plants, leaves
Used maps, texts, scissors, pins and needles, different colour threads, buttons, beads
Felt pens, pencils, colour pencils, cutting boards, cutting knives…

About the Artist

Batool Showghi was born in Iran and moved to England in 1985. Received a merit for MA in Design & Media Arts from the University of Westminster in 1997 just after finishing her BA honors. Worked as a part time lecturer until 2016.

Her work can be found at: The Tate Britain, British Library, The Royal Navy Museum in Portsmouth, the Museum of Art and Literature, Yerevan, Armenia, Middlesex University, Thames Valley and Canterbury University, and in many private collections. Batool’s artwork is regularly exhibited at the Jaggedart gallery in London. Her recent works were shown at The Knitting and Stitching shows 2023 at Alexandra Palace and in Harrogate and most recently at Collect 2024 at Somerset House.
http://www.batoolshowghi.com

Booking Terms and Conditions:
The fee is non-refundable if you cancel (unless another person can take your place.)
We occasionally have a waiting list for a workshop and if that is the case your place would be offered to the next person on the list. If there isn’t a waiting list then you might know someone who could take your place.

With this in mind, please let Bookings know as soon as possible if you are unable to attend.
Bookings queries please email bookings@texgroup.org.uk

 

Details

Date:
April 3
Time:
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Cost:
£10.00 – £30.00

Venue

Zoom

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