Louise Nason, artist in residence 2009

Our artist-in-residence, Louise Nason is running the last workshops of her residency over the next few weeks, the first, on the 28 November is a natural dye workshop where she will be showing how to use a range of, not surprisingly, natural dyes such as cutch and indigo which she uses in her work. The second and final one is a children’s weaving workshop on 22 December. Looking ahead we have Louise’s exhibition, ‘Fabricate, a woven response to place’ which will show the results of her 8 month residency at St George’s. She will also be showing some of the work made by local people as part of the project. During her project Louise has involved lots of people in making their own work or responding in some way to the ideas she has brought to them but she has also had the opportunity to investigate different ways of working herself. So we are really looking forward to seeing the culmination of this time.

Louise Nason Artist in residence.

Well it has been a couple of weeks since I last posted. I have been able to concentrate on my own work and have now finished weaving my major piece. I have sill to finish it. This is preparing the cloth, a technique called beetleing which gives a sheen to the cloth by ironing to give a burnished finish. I then need to work out the methods of displaying the piece.

I have also had some time to think about another piece of work. I have wound the warp and hope to make a start on the weaving once I rope in some family to wind the 4 meter warp on the loom again!!