Armelle Hatch Handed Down Handing On

Armelle Hatch Voile et dentelles

Voile et dentelles

Mixed media

Armelle’s great grandfather, Pierre Armanet, worked in the veil and lace industry in Lyon, France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He invented a machine capable of creating tubular netting and subsequently made his fortune by creating the ‘Mona Lisa veil’, a veil with small mechanically embroidered spots. Marie Armanet, his wife, wore wonderful clothes and hats. In this piece Armelle, being fascinated by millinery flowers, has tried to recreate her great grand-mother’s dressing table with French hat fashions and the veil & lace industry in mind. It combines different fabrics and papers with beads, millinery flower stamens, birdcage veil and wire. The photographs are real pictures, from glass photographic plates taken by Pierre Armanet who was also a passionate amateur photographer. Armelle and her family today can see not only their predecessors but examples of the fashions of their time.

Handed Down, Handing On Exhibition at Joblings Macclesfield

Here are some images from the current exhibition at Jobling Gower at Macclesfield.
You have still got a few days left to see it. Exhibition finishes on 31st May.

Jackie Brough Textile 21

Taslima Ahmad Textile 21

Janet Grimes Textile 21

Margaret Steeden Textile 21

Norma Hopkins Textile 21

Norma Hopkins Textile 21

Norma Hopkins Textile 21

Sue Reeve Textile 21

Sue Reeve Textile 21

Sue Reeve Textile 21

Jenny Rydell Textile 21

Jackie Brough  Textile 21

Handed Down, Handing On Exhibition: 8th April – 31st May 2013

Exhibition:

Monday 8th April – Friday 31st May 2013
‘Handed Down, Handing On’
Macclesfield – Jobling Gowler solicitors – SK11 8AD

http://www.jobling-gowler.co.uk/art-at-park-lane.php

Jackie Brough Pick and Mix

Handed Down, Handing On.... April 2013

Our next exhibition will be in April 2013 at Jobling Gower in Macclesfield which is a lovely exhibition space. For this exhibition we will be exploring things which have been handed down to us and also those that we want to hand on to our children.

Maria Walker's Inspiration for this exhibition is her family holidays in Blackpool and her postcard collection.

Textile artist, Maria Walker is planning on basing her work on her postcard collection, which was partly handed down to her but is also something she has added to over time. She particularly likes her collection of old comic postcards as they remind her of family holidays in Blackpool where her Grandma ran a boarding house. She was brought up in a working class family in Sheffield and is proud of her working class roots so she is  hoping to hand  on this pride to her children along with her wicked sense of humour.