A blog about (some of) my work
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02/06/21 – 11/07/21 Women Making History – London Scottish House
Exhibition of the 100 banners commissioned for Processions 2018. This included the banner I designed and made with the Women Survivors Support Project, Carmarthen. You can watch a film about the exhibition here. A limited edition book was published to support this project.
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2018/19 Stitching Stories
A series of community workshops generated the textile pieces for this interactive quilts. Alongside this the people of the Preseli region in Pembrokeshire shared their experience of living and working in the hills. The quilt was stitched together with the inclusion of conductive thread and Bare Connectives technology was embedded. When the quilt is touched…
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July 2018 Wonder Women
Wonderful Wonder Women collaboration with Di Ford and Rowan Mattiessen for Narberth Carnival Procession. Public and targeted workshops. Music from She Boom, all woman drummers from Edinburgh
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September 2018 & May 2015
The start of a new project provides the perfect excuse to look back, rediscover techniques and hatch new plans. It’s also an opportunity to take stock and reflect on the achievements and landmarks of the intervening years. In May 2015 I was asked to co-facilitate my first community art project with the National Woollen Museum creating…
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Processions 2018 – Banner Making in Progress
Work has begun on the epic banner making process – we’re being ambitious but are a little nervous that our ambition exceeds the time available! I’m working with Span Arts and an amazing group of women from the Women Survivor Support Project whose enthusiasm and energy for this project is producing inspirational results. By 10th…
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Processions
@Processions2018 – Announcing my involvement. 100 years of women’s suffrage.
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Textiles in community projects
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Reasons to be Cheerful
Since July 2016, barely a month after graduation I have been working for Span Arts’ on The Cheerful Project in a community engagement role. This 3 year Big Lottery funded intergenerational project brings social creative activities to isolated communities and individuals around Pembrokeshire. I’ve worked on everything from huge community celebrations such as Haverfordwest’s River…
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May 2016 Degree Show – Carmarthen School of Art
Looking back at my pictures of my degree show, such a great experience and a huge learning curve, so many elements needed to come together to make it work and I think we did it. The textiles gallery space looked amazing, and everyone’s hard work both in the preparation and hanging showed. I was delighted…
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Process 3/4 – Silk
Whether you’ve accessed this post via a QR code attached to one of my degree pieces at Carmarthen School of Art Degree Show, New Designers or if you’ve stumbled across it by some other route – Welcome! This post supports BA Textiles: art, design, craft, final major project: Rehabilitate (see previous posts for more information)…
Nia Lewis, textiles, art, design, education and community, 