Threads, War and Conflict presents textile stories of violence and resistance, exploring issues of gendered violence, disappearance, displacement and migration.
St Andrews, Scotland
Joined November 2018
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The project was supported by Teaching Enhancement Fund, Uni of St Andrews. @ThreadsWar received support from @StAndrewsIR and @Journal_CVIR.
Textiles by @LydiaCCole, @millslaurajayne, @dlaraespinoza, @selenaputri97, Rachel Beattie, Frankie Copp, Schoutje Schouten, Rebecca Campbell, Sophie Pike, and Hamna Mahmood.
At #PSA22 over the next few days? Pop by the Art of Politics exhibition hall to see ‘Letters to Arpilleristas: Threads of Home’ @uniyorkpolitics
Check out our call for abstracts: ‘Unravelling the Threads of War and Conflict’, associated with the @ThreadsWar exhibition, @StAndrewsIR. Final papers will feature in Openings, a new creative interventions section in
@Journal_CVIR. @LydiaCCole and @millslaurajayne
Our last @ThreadsWar event featured a screening of ‘Scraps of Life’ plus Q&A, and artwork from students @StAndrewsIR and beyond. Thanks to all the participants, including students and members of the public, for making this an unforgettable closing event!
Our awesome textile politics conference is tomorrow! For those of who unable to make it or just wanting to follow along, we'll be tweeting. Follow us #ThreadsConference
Join us later today to hear more about @BeBedeGe's (@InterpolAber) fantastic research on textile work in international relations. 5-7pm, Arts Lecture Theatre, @StAndrewsIR.
We've got an exciting week of events coming up to mark the close of @ThreadsWar: @BeBedeGe's exciting research on 'Knowing through Needlework' @StAndrewsIR Seminar Series, a full day of textile discussions, and a creative evening on Friday @ByreTheatre: byretheatre.com/events/craft…
On Friday afternoon we got started on our textiles in our workshop 'Letters to Arpilleristas'. Thanks to @calcat for facilitating! Come to our #creative evening @ByreTheatre on 26 April to see some of the results.
@ThreadsWar is set-up and ready to go! Join us later @ByreTheatre for our launch at 4.15pm. Introduction from @univofstandrews' Principal Professor Sally Mapstone and tour with #ConflictTextiles curator, Roberta Bacic.
So excited that this is coming together!! Just 2 days to go until the launch of @ThreadsWar exhibition at @univofstandrews and @ByreTheatre
The captions have arrived! Only 6 day till we launch @ByreTheatre @univofstandrews!
Counting down . . . only 1 week till the @ThreadsWar launch @ByreTheatre @univofstandrews! We'll be joined by curator, Roberta Bacic who will talk to us about the various stories of the textiles.
Just over a week till the @ThreadsWar launch @ByreTheatre and we've just set up our satellite exhibition @StAndrewsUniLib! Books are available to take out for all @univofstandrews students! #textiles #art #global #politics #Scotland #Fife
