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PRESS: 05. 01.2012
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Sharon Blakey & Ismini Samanidou Photo: Ben Blackall
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Sharon Blakey & Ismini Samanidou Photo: Ben Blackall
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David Gates Photo: Artist
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Sharon Blakey nesting spoons photograph by Ben Blackall
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SELECT SPRING 12
‘PAIRINGS II – conversations & collaborations’
April 28 –May 27 2012

Stroud International Textiles’ (SIT) new programming launched this year is designed to continue to highlight SIT’s reputation for excellence while offering a more collaborative approach by working with a range of national and international makers to bring fresh thinking and innovation.
Committed to the highest quality work SELECT will be doing this through a diverse programme of exhibitions and projects that will encompass other points in the year, and in locations in and beyond Stroud. 

While continuing to focus on textiles we will be supporting other art and craft forms in our work.
On April 28th 2012 Stroud International Textiles will open its latest exhibition 

‘Pairings II – conversations & collaborations’. Pairings II is co-curated by Alice Kettle with Lizzi Walton (SIT artistic director)  Alice Kettle is one of the UK’s leading textile artists with work exhibited widely and Senior Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Pairs of artist/makers will come together to share new technologies, techniques and materials that may be unfamiliar to them and their usual creative practices. Some leading names in the world of contemporary crafts will link and pair with lesser known makers to engage and explore; inspire and innovate.

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Helen Storey & Anthony Ryan ‘Catalytic Clothing’
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Individuals Helping Us Shape Our World for the Better
Symposium Saturday 5 May 2012
Stroud College in Gloucestershire
Part of the Pairings II exhibition

Stroud International Textiles (SIT) are pleased to announce further details of the Symposium which will take place on Saturday 5 May to accompany the groundbreaking exhibition ‘PAIRINGS II – conversations & collaborations’ showing at the Museum in the Park, Stratford Park Stroud Gloucestershire. This major event in the Gloucestershire and the South West’s arts calendar will see exhibiting artists, who have collaborated to push the boundaries of their chosen fields of expertise, sharing the experience of their partnership, offering debate and exploration of their work and giving audiences an insight into their techniques, methods and innovative thinking.

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