MADE 2022

Textiles

This exhibition showcases the breadth and diversity of the range of skills and disciplines within the Textile department including Print, Tapestry, Natural Dyeing and Printing, Patchwork and Quilting, Stitch, Knit, Machine Knit, Upholstery, Felting, Mosaics, Drawing, Interior Design, upcycling, repurposing, mending and design development.

Alongside encouraging individual student creativity and development we also work collaboratively and partake in collaborations. For example, students on the Advanced Textile Workshop contributed to the Coat of Hopes: A patchwork garment made of embroidered pieces of blanket, created by a diverse range of people along a 500 mile walk from the south coast of England to Scotland carrying stitched remembrances and hopes connected to local landscapes and stories of migration, to COP26 in Glasgow. The coat seeks to build connections between people and communities, to value and carry their voices, and to resonate and belong to everyone

Textiles courses involved:

World Textiles on Thursdays with Mary Spyrou 

Traditional and Experimental Tapestry Weaving on Wednesdays with Justine Randall 

Textiles Advanced Workshop on Wednesdays with Jenny Bell Wednesdays

Printed Textiles on Thursdays with Marian Lynch Thursdays 

Machine Knitting on Fridays with Josephine Thompson 

Cloth Dolls with Deborah Brown 

Contemporary Quilt Workshop Mondays with Dani Atkinson 

Patchwork and Quilting: Beginners Monday evenings with Kaye Telford

Mosaics Workshop with Vanessa Benson 

Crochet Thursday evenings with Josephine Cowell 

Seasonal Natural Dyeing Tuesdays with Zoe Burt and Mary Spyrou

Traditional Upholstery Monday evenings with Sam Edkins 21st 22nd May 

Coat of Hopes - collaborative outside partnership involving textile students https://www.coatofhopes.uk/

Alumni - Kim Winter - showcasing Basketry which will be re-launching as new textile courses in 2023

Jewellery

The Jewellery Department at Morley College is delighted to be exhibiting our student work alongside the textile department once again in our biannual series of MADE exhibitions.

The Jewellery section has an outstanding reputation for providing jewellery courses for adults at all levels of learning. We offer full and part time day, evening and weekend courses for the beginner through to professional level in our  fantastically equipped jewellery studio. We provide our students a relaxed and supportive environment in which to learn new skills, develop existing talents or improve their employment opportunities, something we have been doing for over forty years. If you want to learn wax working, soldering, general metalwork fabrication, beading, forging, enamelling, keum- boo, coppersmithing, wood carving, casting, working with acrylics, stone setting, aluminium printing, mould making with silicon rubbers, resin work, laser cutting, polymer clays, design, etching metals and polishing then we have the course for you. You can see our courses here    

This MADE group exhibition celebrates the exceptional work of our Textile and Jewellery students and the breadth and diversity of the range of skills and disciplines within the Jewellery and Textile Department. Many of our students have developed work in response to the rich theme of FANTASTICAL BOTANICAL, exploring the importance that plants have in our changing world.

Exhibition runs from 21 April to 4 May, Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 1pm – 5pm. Private View: Thursday 21st April, 6-8pm