A brief and last minute plug for an event in Leeds tomorrow night! Not textiles, but disability art at it’s most subversive and challenging. Katherine Araniello‘s film, the Dinner Party Revisited, will be shown at Live Art Bistro on Regent Street in Leeds on Thursday 15th October at 7pm. It’s a great space, very close to … More The Dinner Party revisited
We’re now looking for artists who consider themselves to be disabled to submit work for a textile art project, culminating in an exhibition in Leeds in spring 2016 (dates to be confirmed). Shoddy is open to disabled artists (individuals or groups) to submit textile-based work, or artwork that involves textiles. Work for the exhibition will … More Disabled artists: submit work for Shoddy
On a train ride from Leeds to Dewsbury, just before you arrive at Dewsbury station, look out of the windows on the left of the train for a marvellous view of Machell’s Shoddy and Mungo Mill. The sign along the front has been repainted so it clearly and proudly states the building’s previous use- it … More Machell’s Shoddy and Mungo Mill
I invited Sasha Callaghan, a fellow disabled activist, trade unionist and also historian, specialising in disabled people’s lives during Victorian times, to contribute to this blog. One of Shoddy’s themes takes us into the past, the industrial revolution and the beginnings of the shoddy industry in the 19th century, to reflect on disabled people’s lives … More Slip Shod, by Sasha Callaghan
