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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Fragment Found: An interview with curator Eva Jack Piecing together shared heritage and histories, from the ground to the gallery: decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/fragment-f...

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Fragment Found: An interview with curator Eva Jack

Piecing together shared heritage and histories, from the ground to the gallery...

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

‘I love pushing mediums into the monumental and the monstrous’ 🍃 Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits: decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/myth-and-m...

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Myth and making: An interview with Jonathan Baldock

Pushing craft mediums into the monumental and the monstrous...

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Our latest post is on The Philosophy of Vegetable Dyes with Ethel M. Mairet! Read more: decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/the-philos...

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Bauhausian @bauhausian.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Gertrud Arndt aspired to study architecture but was redirected to the weaving workshop due to her gender; she later made significant contributions to photography 📸 #GertrudArndt #Architcture #Study #Bauhaus

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Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Towards the end of her long, colourful life, Beatrice Wood became known as the Mama of Dada and attributed her great longevity to ‘art books, chocolate & young men’! Read more in @decodissidence.bsky.social newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) is our March Modernist Maker ✨ From Dada ingenu to maker of dazzling ceramics, Wood spent her life in pursuit of shock & defying boundaries ✨ Read more in our newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Erin M Riley is a textile artist who pushes weaving to the limit in her mission to explore the challenges & contradictions of life in the internet age. In her work the labour of making & surviving is made visible. Read our interview with Erin, on her 1st solo show ‘Look Back At It’: bit.ly/40Eci5n

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Catch up with our Modernist Maker series – from Mina Loy to Bauhaus weavers, Ruth Asawa, Art Smith and more! decoratingdissidence.substack.com/t/modernist-...

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Our January roundup is out now over on Substack. We’ve been easing into the new year with Malene Barnett’s Crafted Kinship 📕 + the Women in Revolt! podcast, & planning trips to Ditchling Museum of Craft’s Tadek Beutlich exhibition 🧵 Read more of our Jan picks: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...

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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Thinking about Gertrude Stein this morning: A sentence is an imagined masterpiece. A sentence is an imagined frontispiece. In looking up from her embroidery she looks at me. She lifts up the tapestry. It is partly. Think in stitches. Think in settlements. Think in willows.

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 07/01/2025

Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026. Please share!

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Work with us - Royal Society of Literature

Literature for Everyone The RSL team is led by an ethos of respect and compassion for each other and the communities we work with, and these values are reflected in everything we do. We believe litera...

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

✨ Our first Modernist Maker feature of 2025 celebrates modern artists’ jewellery - from Peggy Guggenheim’s fabulous earring collection to Surrealist accessories crafted by a master goldsmith and jewellery made by Picasso for friends & lovers ✨ 🔗 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-...

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

🌀 In our weekly newsletter, join us for a tour of The Cosmic House - a peculiar wonder of postmodernism 🪬Designed by & for Charles Jencks, the anthropomorphic home is currently host to a site specific installation by artists Tai Shani. Shani sets up a sensuous, surreal dialogue with the interior.

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Our monthly modernist digest looks at the work of the Omega Workshops, inspired by a visit to Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston at Sotheby’s - our faves inc. Wyndham Lewis’ striking orange robe & Vanessa Bell’s The Party (the painting thought to have inspired Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway!)

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org

Screenshot of the Quilt Index website, featuring a quilt overlain with a text block featuring the site's title

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Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I have made a starter pack for researchers working on modernist and avant-garde women. Absolutely not comprehensive, just put some names down to get the list started - please let me know if you want to be removed/added! go.bsky.app/VSS1aBR

Modernist and Avant-Garde Women starter pack

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

📩 Jeremy Deller and Ed Hall's banners make space for William Morris, Morris dancers, acid house, brass bands, gurning competitions, and art to coexist... #banner #textile #craft decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/review-jer...

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Review: Jeremy Deller's banners unpick Britishness

An exhibition of the Turner Prize winner's banners, made in collaboration with Ed Hall, in Glasgow...

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

👋 Hello! We're Decorating Dissidence - a project documenting craft and making from modernism to now ✂️For radical histories of craft, modernist maker profiles, interviews with artists, curators & makers, reviews, guest essays and more, subscribe to our newsletter ✉️ decoratingdissidence.substack.com

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Decorating Dissidence | Substack

Craft culture, interviews & more! Click to read Decorating Dissidence, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Friends, new and old! My book is 40% off with code EXMSTA24 for a short time. Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

For the launch of the Turner Prize @decodissidence.bsky.social published an interview I did with nominee Delaine Le Bas over the summer. We talked about stitching feminist histories, thinking back through our grandmothers & commemorating lost art from marginalised people. More: bit.ly/3XVqN4T

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

RIP Faith Ringgold (1930-2024), who leaves an incredible legacy after a life dedicated to art &activism. In story quilts such as the French Collection, she used textile art to intervene in narratives of art history & modernism, rewriting the canon to centre the Black female gaze.

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Our Jan Modernist Maker Digest celebrates Clarice Cliff, 125 years after her birth ✨ Cliff’s journey from working-class girl to pioneer of Art Deco ceramics led her to study at the Royal Academy of Art & collab w/ leading 20thc artists, inc Barbara Hepworth & Vanessa Bell. ✉️https://t.co/R9Fy0gbRnG

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Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Festive woodcuts made by Marguerite Zorach c 1910s-30s to send as Christmas cards to the family’s friends and patrons 🎄✨

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

Wishing all our followers a peaceful & relaxing festive period ✨ A huge thank you for your support this year 💖 our final newsletter of 2023 ft tips for exhibitions, books & opps to check out over the holidays - read it here: bit.ly/3GRT2rT

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Modernist jewellery designer Art Smith (1917-1982) was at the centre of a flourishing Black queer creative scene in mid-century Greenwich Village. He made pieces for Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday & Eleanor Roosevelt & his handcrafted designs featured in Vogue. More in our newsletter: bit.ly/41qnnHb

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Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

So much to take in at Tate’s expansive Women in Revolt! exhibition, but here are three favourite picks (all happen to be Scottish & two textile artists ofc!) - Carole Gibbons, Rita McGurn & Elizabeth Radcliffe 🧶

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Fabric of Democracy: Propaganda Textiles from the French Revolution to Brexit at Fashion & Textile Museum explores how textiles act as ‘highly charged political objects’, from Blitz dresses, Communist bedspreads & Brexit tea towels. Check out our interview w/ curator Amber Butchart: bit.ly/3GiBB3m

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Join us on 15 November to hear @amyeelkins.bsky.social in conversation with Kabe Wilson! They'll be talking all things archives, methods and materials to celebrate 1 year of 'Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present' Free tix here: www.tickettailor.com/events/decor...

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Join the guestlist – One Year of 'Crafting Feminism' with Amy Elkins and Kabe Wilson – Zoom

One Year of 'Crafting Feminism' with Amy Elkins and Kabe Wilson – Zoom, Wed 15 Nov 2023 - Decorating Dissidence are excited to bring together researcher Dr Amy E. Elkins and artist Kabe Wilson to ce...

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

To mark the launch of @lwhalen.bsky.social ‘a Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern, we celebrate textile artist Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968) in our newsletter. Zorach’s stunning tapestries, rugs & clothing designs fused modernist forms w/ craft techniques. 🔗 bit.ly/3FMwubh

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

✉️ Check out our October craft & making round up for jobs & awards in the sector, plus spotlights on exciting new autumn exhibitions inc. Enam Gbewonyo at Nott New Art Exchange, the British Textile Bienniale & our round up of Frieze highlights! Don’t miss our latest updates, sign up: bit.ly/3FjEDnm

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

Get your free tix! Kabe’s work is mind-meltingly-brilliant and we’re so excited about this conversation. And the chance to collaborate with attendees! www.tickettailor.com/events/decor...

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

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Join the guestlist – One Year of 'Crafting Feminism' with Amy Elkins and Kabe Wilson – Zoom

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Our Modernist Makers this month are Hilary Bourne & Barbara Allen, a craft couple who were collaborators in life & creative practice. Their overlooked contribution to British Modernism is the focus of Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft’s new exhibition Double Weave 🧶 Read more: bit.ly/3LPxhvA

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

We’re delighted to host an online celebration of Amy Elkins’ book Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present on 15th Nov ⚡️Amy will be in conversation with the DD team & multimedia artist Kabe Wilson, whose work ft in her book 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/decor...

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

Sunday read! Our interview with curator Graham Feyl on all things glitter, making and queer craft 💖 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/all-that-g...

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'All That Glitters': An interview with Graham Feyl

Exploring the radical radiance of queer craft

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Decorating Dissidence @decodissidence.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

We spoke with artist and maker Alice Kettle, fresh from curating 'Threads: breathing life into new materials' Arnolfini (on until 1 Oct, Bristol) in our latest newsletter! 👇🧶 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/how-thread... “I use thread as a descriptive line, textured and rich"

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How threads tell stories: An interview with Alice Kettle

Exploring the narrative power of textiles...

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Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

An absolutely magical drizzly afternoon with my capstone students at the Minneapolis Institute of Art! They’ve already done Polaroids and cyanotypes so WHAT a treat to see Warhol’s Polaroid photo album and an Anna Atkins original ❤️ in the archive 📸.

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Lottie Whalen @lwhalen.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Researcher Graham Feyl chatted to Decorating Dissidence about his work on queer craft networks & histories in NYC & San Francisco✨’How do nail polish, eyeliner, glitter act as craft materials when they’re not part of that canon? Embedded within that q are issues of class & access’✨ bit.ly/3PwOHOB

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