exhibition – KDD & Co

meet, make, collaborate

creative, collective and protective acts of making

the Carbeth creature goes north

The Carbeth creature takes a trip to Banchory

Write by the Sea

By: Sam Kilday March 22, 2020March 22, 2020

exhibition, ootlier, photography, reading, writingArgyll, disability, exhibition, landscape, nature writing11 Comments

The inaugural Write by the Sea Festival in Argyll, celebrated writing and writers exploring themes connected with the sea, food, coast, nature and place

Are you going to Shetland Wool Week this year? If so, can I strongly suggest you set aside a day in your itinerary for a trip to the wonderful island of Whalsay?. The Whalsay Heritage Centre is currently hosting an exhibition of the island’s fair isle knitting that will, I assure you, really blow your…

Delaunay retrospective

By: Kate Davies Designs April 19, 2015April 19, 2015

art, design, exhibition, interview, textilesart, design, exhibition, modernism, Sonia Delaunay, Tate, Tate Modern, textiles32 Comments

You all know of my Sonia Delaunay obsession, and I was extremely excited to attend the opening of the retrospective of her work at Tate Modern last week. Box, (1913) Delaunay crossed disciplinary boundaries effortlessly, and it was wonderful to see her ease in various aesthetic / commercial contexts properly represented. Delaunay did not impose…

in with the new

After the conclusion of my clothing-myself project in 2008, I have a new project for 2009. I think that most things are seen better when seen from on foot, and I am often struck by just how much more atuned one becomes to the changing uses and meanings of a landscape when walking through it.…

Henry Moore Textiles

By: Kate Davies Designs December 8, 2008December 11, 2008

design, exhibition, fabric, textilesdesign, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, exhibition, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Henry Moore Textiles, review, textiles9 Comments

It has been a very busy week! But one of its real highlights was visiting the newly refurbished Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh with my friend Melanie, and seeing their superb exhibition of Henry Moore’s textiles. Looking at his designs, and the 1940s upholstery and clothing fashioned from them, I got about as excited as I’ve…

troubled

By: Kate Davies Designs May 27, 2008June 1, 2010

exhibition, feminism, gardens, reviewbotanical illustration, exhibition, Inverleith House, John Hutton Balfour, Louise Bourgeois, Nature Study, review, Royal Botanic Garden, scientific illustration4 Comments

Needled reviews Louise Bourgeois, Nature Study. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Until July 6th. I like Louise Bourgeois. I like what she stands for. She’s a woman whose early work challenges and outlasts so many of her surrealist contemporaries, with their ludicrous, dick-swinging excesses. I like her investigative, excavatory treament of sexuality and power. I particularly…

jaunt

By: Kate Davies Designs April 9, 2008April 10, 2008

exhibition, fashion, quilts, review, stationery, textiles, walkingAndrea Williamson, Donna Wilson, exhibition, Hip Knits exhibition, National Museum of Costume, review, Scottish textiles, Tait and Style2 Comments

We went on a jaunt to the National Museum of Costume outside Dumfries, to see the “Hip Knits” exhibition. In the Museum’s permanent collections, there were some fabulous nineteenth-century dresses and shoes on display, but my favourite thing of the day was this: incredibly fine linen whitework, backed with pink silk, and made by one…

words and stitches

By: Kate Davies Designs December 3, 2007December 4, 2007

embroidery, exhibition, quilts, review, textilesexhibition, Knitting and Stitching show, Primmy and Jessie Chorley, quilting, quilts, Sara Impey, textiles, Tilleke Schwarz5 Comments

Last night I dreamt I was reading a sweater. I stood at the front of a full room. The sweater was my script and I read aloud from its stitches as if they were braille. Perhaps this dream suggests my mind’s happy ability to mingle together what I do for a living with what I…