I’m just back from Harrogate where Gail Baxter and I
exhibited our latest lace projects in one of the gallery spaces at the Knitting and stitching show. Gail’s work
concerns netting, recycling and sustainability and mine was a series of veils
inspired by nineteenth century gothic novels and their authors. The link
between the two was the use of netting – fishing net for Gail and the fine net
of wedding veils for me. The space was a different shape from our gallery at
Alexandra Palace, which had been the first venue for the exhibition. The square
gallery at Harrogate allowed us to group the work more effectively and I was
pleased that my veils could be seen as a complete body of work and the
relationships between them could be appreciated. The gallery was also at the
entrance to the show so we had a constant stream of visitors who were
interested in finding out the background to the work and the inspiration for
it. I was especially pleased that at the end of each day several people leaving
the show came up to us and said that they thought our exhibition was the best
in the show.
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