Visible mending On Tour

Fresh from Northumberland via The Shed on the Allotment Carol Parker's mighty Visible Mending Exhibition - with additions from The View From Here group has arrived at The Green Patch in Kettering!

Visible Mending Exhibition

originally shown in THE SHED ON ALLOTMENT 17B  is now on tour!

 http://theshed1.wordpress.com

A self-funded, social media driven project by social artist Carol Parker; connecting communities through the traditional craft of darning and the contemporary craft of visible mending

Contributors so far:

Carol Parker, Lincolnshire

Kay Steven, Northumberland Lorena Hodgson, Lincolnshire Fiona Gurney, Lincolnshire Gillian Wing, Lincolnshire Suu Wernham, Lincolnshire
Carole Miles, Northants Anonymous, Yorkshire
Kate Marsden, Surrey
Anna, Sweden
Cassandra Harrison, Berwick on Tweed
Rosie Moore, West Sussex
Jeni Atkinson, Lincolnshire
Jane Pullan, Enid Lechie, Helen Porter  and Patricia Ward of  Unique Cottage Studios Textile Group, Lincolnshire Lucy Anderson, Maureen Walvin, Sonja Wilson,  Sue Rigby, Jenny - Northamptonshire

All photographs of individual work and tour will be uploaded here: 

If you can't get to the Green Patch here is a glimpse of the exhibition in the Summer House

A lovely place to sit, enjoy the view and all the Visibly Mended postcards on tour so far. 

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DARN YOUR OWN POSTCARD TO ADD TO THE EXHIBITION.  DON’T FORGET TO LEAVE A MESSAGE ON THE BACK – AFTER ALL THAT’S WHAT POSTCARDS ARE FOR!….

If you'd like to add to the Kettering leg of the tour why not join us at the Resource Centre between 11 and 1 Friday June 20th for coffee and creativity!

Visibly Mending the View

We have now begun our new pilot project 

The View From Here 

and will be meeting mid-morning on 

Fridays for 6 more weeks.

For our first exploration artist Carole Miles

invited the group to take part in the Visible Mending

touring exhibition by Art on the High Street.

We chose postcards and altered or mended them

thinking and sharing our views and experiences

as we stitched, darned and embellished our postcards.

Poet Lucy Anderson (finally united with her Art on the High Street Flouro Rattus who arrived named Lucy her creators by Carol Parker & Amy Lee)  invited each person to show their mended card and to share the story behind the stitches.

By a process of reduction we were 

led to a starting point for a poem

which we will be continuing to work 

with on Friday 6th June 11 - 1pm. 

Please do join us if

you are in the area.

You can see all of the postcards we mended here , they will be joining the existing cards when the Visible Mending Exhibition comes to the Green Patch on June 14th

You can more about Art On The High Street's Visible Mending here 

and you can see Carole's first card, which is already on tour here

You can let us know if you'll be joining us here