About this Event
This online discussion brings together artists, academic researchers and community organisations to explore the potentials and futures of natural dyeing. It features talks from a range of speakers, each working with botanical colour in varied ways – from screen-printing, to planting community dye gardens, to experimenting with biomaterials, and more. Together we will explore the role of natural dyes in supporting sustainable textile production, connected communities and individual wellbeing, asking how natural dyeing could inspire new ways of understanding and caring for environments.
This session is organised by WOVEN in Kirklees, Stitched Up and the University of Manchester, and is open to researchers, students and members of the public.
Speakers:
· Jane Howroyd, Natural Dye Artist, WOVEN, Growing Colour Together project
· Nell Smith, Textile Artist and Print Maker, Hot Bed Press, Salford.
· Dr Jane Wood, 'Lecturer in Textile and Fashion Technology, University of Manchester
· Jo Eyden , Project Worker on the Stretford Community Dye Garden (SCDG) Project ,Stitched Up, Manchester
Chaired By:
Dr Laura Pottinger and Dr Ghada Soliman, University of Manchester
Organisers:
Woven in Kirklees, Stitched Up, and the University of Manchester.
This event is on the occasion of WOW Manchester
https://factoryinternational.org/whats-on/wow-manchester/
Come and join us for workshops in natural dyes on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th May.
Bios:
Jane Wood is a lecturer in textile and fashion technology at the University of Manchester. Prior to academia, Jane spent many years in the global textile industry, travelling the world and working for many well known high street brands. She has seen the devastating effects first hand of over production and consumption of fashion and textiles. Her research work is committed to finding alternative fabrics and processes to quell our addiction to fashion, without harming the environment.
Nell Smith is a textile artist and printmaker working from a studio at Hot Bed Press in Salford. An interest in sustainability, the environment and nature have led her to carefully consider the materials used within her work. Her most recent collection, ‘Chroma’, is the culmination of an 8 month Arts Council funded DYCP research project into natural dyes and pigments for screen printing. Inspired by British folklore, she made prints and textile pieces using natural dyes found, foraged and extracted from plants. With this work she aims to highlight the impact we have on the environment as we move through the world and the beauty of the colour found in nature.
Jo Eyden is a Project Worker on the Stretford Community Dye Garden (SCDG) Project, a collaboration between Stitched Up Community Benefit Society and Friends of Victoria Park Stretford. Stitched Up's mission is to inspire local communities to take action on sustainable fashion, in whatever way they can. They share skills and resources that help communities to keep their clothing and textiles in use for longer. SCDG is one of their latest projects. With and for the local community, SCDG aims to create a permanent dye garden within Victoria Park in Stretford (Manchester), providing a space to grow dye plants together, access dyestuffs and experiment with using natural dyes to colour fabric and paper.
Event Venue
Online
GBP 0.00