Make a Smilebox scrapbook

This is a community arts project which I did in 2005/6. It is hanging in the Maritime Museum in Aberdeen co-inciding with the Evoilution Exhibition. It is a combination of patchwork & cyanotype printing technique. I worked with a group of about 12 senior citizens to make these five panels.

Haslach Sewing Project, Freiburg, Germany from 2002 - 2005. Supported by the Soziale Stadt.

I facilitated a textile art workshop with Germans & migrants. I later organised a Recycling Textile Workshop.

Whilst listening to the music of St Germain- Tourist I found it conjured up images and emotions of city living, getting ready to go out on a date, meeting friends and dancing. I had been experimenting with laying objects on the shelf on an overhead projecter and then enlarging the images. The sandal, bottle and a rose seem to take on a life of their own!