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Inspiration from Historical Textiles with Hannah Lamb
13th May 2023 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
In this talk, Hannah Lamb will share her passion for archives and collections, as well as some of the stories behind her recent creative projects, including a ‘Fragment of a Dress’ (2022) commissioned by the Bronte Parsonage Museum and Incomplete Histories, which she showed during the British Textile Biennial in 2021.
This event is taking place as part of Sunny Bank Mills’ first ‘Threads Textile Festival’ – a weekend celebrating textiles through a series of talks, workshops and a textile market featuring over 40 stallholders per day!
Visit the threads page > https://www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/arts/gallery/threads-textile-festival-2023/
About Hannah
Hannah Lamb is a Bradford based artist, author and lecturer, working in the field of art textiles. Her recent creative practice has explored themes around the industrial textile heritage of the region and our intimate, yet global relationship to cloth. She works with a range of textile processes, including stitch, print and fabric manipulation, creating textile artworks from an intimate scale to larger installation and interactive works. Hannah’s first solo book, Poetic Cloth; Creating Meaning in Textile Art, was published by Batsford in 2019.
About the venue
Sunny Bank Mills is an inspirational cultural destination in the heart of the local community of Farsley, Leeds. Founded in 1829, these glorious Mills are being regenerated by the sixth generation of the family owners, creating a wonderful blend of work, leisure and culture.
Terms and conditions
Tickets for this event are non-refundable.
If the event is postponed or cancelled for any reason your ticket will be fully refunded.