Aural Textiles I.0 • 2018

In a change from working independently in my home studio, I was delighted to be selected for the creative collaboration research project - Aural Textiles. George Jaramillo and Lynne Mennie, sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, aimed to bring together six textile designers to explore new ways of using sounds within our environment as inspiration for creating textile patterns. Over two residential workshops in a very snowy Newtonmore and a very wet Plockton, the six participants recorded sounds, explored spectrograms and created new patterns from a very different perspective. Using my own recording (footsteps in the snow) and one from another maker (wren’s birdsong) I created two new fabrics, for the Tangible Sounds group exhibition at the Falconer Museum in Forres, 2018.