I was awarded Developing Your Creative Practice funding from Arts Council England to undertake this personal research and development project starting in January 2023 and completing in January 2024.
Intuitive Threads - an exploration of the nature and role of intuition in the creative process through SAORI and intuitive approaches to weaving.
I identify my natural creative process as largely intuitive. Ideas in art therapy focused my work on process rather than on a pre-planned result. Traditional weaving methods require technical knowledge and planning. I wanted to explore the SAORI ethos of there are no mistakes, self-expression and human over machine. This embodies an intuitive method and approach ideal for me to explore in relation to my creative process. Exploring ideas around creativity and intuition through a craft process allows the intangible to become tangible and puts theory into practice.
I wanted to develop a new freedom of approach and explore what I can take from SAORI into my wider practice and more traditional weaving methods. I want to clarify my ideas on intuition in the creative process.
To find out more about the project, the workshops I attended, the research I did on SAORI and Creative Intuition and the work I produced as well as thoughts on my creative process., please take a look at my BLOG HERE.
Woven Threads - funded by Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England. December 2009 - February 2012
A personal research and development project, exploring the ribbon weaving industry of Coventry and Warwickshire in the 19th Century and my family connection to it. Resulting in exhibitions at Nuneaton Art Gallery & Museum and the Parsonage Heritage Centre, Bedworth.
To find out
more please take a look at the project website, www.woventhreadsproject.co.uk
