Ruth Singer/Embroidered Herstories: Rediscovering Mary Linwood

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Embroidered Herstories: Rediscovering Mary Linwood

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Coming soon: in-depth online course exploring Mary Linwood and her making practice. Includes talks, object study, technique demonstration and more. £45 Sign up for more details

Contents

Welcome

Welcome talk
Live Q&A POSTPONED to 19th May

Mary Linwood's Life and Work

This section includes several resources for you to explore and get an understanding of Mary Linwood and her work including a one hour lecture, an essay sections on each of the exhibition themes.

Mary Linwood Art, Stitch & Life: Recorded Lecture
Article on Mary Linwood
Exhibition Introduction
Personal Life
The Priory School & Life in Leicester
Fame and Fortune
Timeline
Legacy
Matronage - women supporters of Mary Linwood

Exhibition

Some resources about the exhibition

Exhibition images
Online exhibition

Materials & Making in detail

More about how Mary Linwood worked, the materials she used and studies of surviving textile objects

Introduction to Materials & Making
Making process
Stitching process and details
Materials in detail: needles and threads
Colours

Object Studies

This module covers the Mary Linwood artworks in detail as well as additional pieces not included in the exhibition and other works that have been attributed to Mary Linwood but were not made by her.

Scrapbook
The Woodman
Pomeranian Dog
Shepherd’s Boy in a Storm
Deposition or Dead Christ
David with His Sling
Napoleon
Girl Weeping over a Starved Goldfinch
The Nativity or The Holy Family
Hare
Grapes
Woodpecker and Jay
Frugal Fare or Cottage Girl
Horse and Dog
Country Child or Girl and Cat
Attributed to Mary Linwood
Lion Emerging from a Cave
Portrait of Mary Linwood
The Bowes Museum pieces
Salvator Mundi
Tygress
Woodcocks and Kingfisher
Salvator Rosa Landscape
Tiger
Inside of a Stable
Lost and sold works

Ruth Singer's work

An exploration of my own textile artwork made in response to Mary Linwood's life and legacy - 30 minute captioned video lecture.

My textile artworks in response to Mary Linwood's life and story

Additional resources

Books and other resources
Other exhibitions
Linwood gallery catalogue
Mary Linwood letters
Other named needle painters
Embroidery Detective Trail
1945 exhibition
1951 exhibition
Auctions
Donation of the Nativity