After spending more than 500 hours embroidering in an attempt to come to terms with the bushfires of 2019-2020, I discovered that while no news may be good news, ‘slow news’ is even better.
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Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.
Persistent challenges of the past and the present burden women with unspoken traumas, but art such as needlework is a way to break the silence.
The 950-year-old Bayeux Tapestry is as much an object of fascination for its mysterious origins and formidable craft as it is for the nationalist debates it continues to inspire.
Is an archaic sewing skill a key to connected, sensing, communicating fabrics of the future?
Embroidery - often seen as women’s work - was a common form of therapy for troops wounded in the first world war. One soldier, Albert Biggs, learned to sew with his left hand after his right arm was badly injured.
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University
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Professor emerita, Art History, York University, Canada
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Lecturer in Visual Art and McGlade Gallery Director, Australian Catholic University
