Decorating Dissidence
@decodissidence.bsky.social
Radical acts of craft & making 🪡 We curate exhibitions, events & a journal exploring modern decorative art, craft & design 🧶
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👋 Hello! We're Decorating Dissidence - a project documenting craft and making from modernism to now
✂️For radical histories of craft, modernist maker profiles, interviews with artists, curators & makers, reviews, guest essays and more, subscribe to our newsletter ✉️
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✂️For radical histories of craft, modernist maker profiles, interviews with artists, curators & makers, reviews, guest essays and more, subscribe to our newsletter ✉️
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Fragment Found: An interview with curator Eva Jack
Piecing together shared heritage and histories, from the ground to the gallery:
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Piecing together shared heritage and histories, from the ground to the gallery:
decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/fragment-f...
Fragment Found: An interview with curator Eva Jack
Piecing together shared heritage and histories, from the ground to the gallery...
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August 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Fragment Found: An interview with curator Eva Jack
Piecing together shared heritage and histories, from the ground to the gallery:
decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/fragment-f...
Piecing together shared heritage and histories, from the ground to the gallery:
decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/fragment-f...
‘I love pushing mediums into the monumental and the monstrous’ 🍃
Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits:
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Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits:
decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/myth-and-m...
Myth and making: An interview with Jonathan Baldock
Pushing craft mediums into the monumental and the monstrous...
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May 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
‘I love pushing mediums into the monumental and the monstrous’ 🍃
Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits:
decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/myth-and-m...
Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits:
decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/myth-and-m...
Our latest post is on The Philosophy of Vegetable Dyes with Ethel M. Mairet!
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Read more:
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April 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Our latest post is on The Philosophy of Vegetable Dyes with Ethel M. Mairet!
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Gertrud Arndt aspired to study architecture but was redirected to the weaving workshop due to her gender; she later made significant contributions to photography 📸 #GertrudArndt #Architcture #Study #Bauhaus
March 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Gertrud Arndt aspired to study architecture but was redirected to the weaving workshop due to her gender; she later made significant contributions to photography 📸 #GertrudArndt #Architcture #Study #Bauhaus
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Towards the end of her long, colourful life, Beatrice Wood became known as the Mama of Dada and attributed her great longevity to ‘art books, chocolate & young men’! Read more in @decodissidence.bsky.social newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
March 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Towards the end of her long, colourful life, Beatrice Wood became known as the Mama of Dada and attributed her great longevity to ‘art books, chocolate & young men’! Read more in @decodissidence.bsky.social newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) is our March Modernist Maker ✨ From Dada ingenu to maker of dazzling ceramics, Wood spent her life in pursuit of shock & defying boundaries ✨
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Read more in our newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
March 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) is our March Modernist Maker ✨ From Dada ingenu to maker of dazzling ceramics, Wood spent her life in pursuit of shock & defying boundaries ✨
Read more in our newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
Read more in our newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
From Dada to Taboo! Our modernist maker feature celebrates provocateur Leigh Bowery 💚
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Modernist Maker Digest 016: Leigh Bowery
How the taboo busting performance artist brought the Dada spirit into a new decade...
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February 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
From Dada to Taboo! Our modernist maker feature celebrates provocateur Leigh Bowery 💚
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Erin M Riley is a textile artist who pushes weaving to the limit in her mission to explore the challenges & contradictions of life in the internet age. In her work the labour of making & surviving is made visible. Read our interview with Erin, on her 1st solo show ‘Look Back At It’: bit.ly/40Eci5n
January 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Erin M Riley is a textile artist who pushes weaving to the limit in her mission to explore the challenges & contradictions of life in the internet age. In her work the labour of making & surviving is made visible. Read our interview with Erin, on her 1st solo show ‘Look Back At It’: bit.ly/40Eci5n
Catch up with our Modernist Maker series – from Mina Loy to Bauhaus weavers, Ruth Asawa, Art Smith and more!
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January 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Catch up with our Modernist Maker series – from Mina Loy to Bauhaus weavers, Ruth Asawa, Art Smith and more!
decoratingdissidence.substack.com/t/modernist-...
decoratingdissidence.substack.com/t/modernist-...
Our January roundup is out now over on Substack. We’ve been easing into the new year with Malene Barnett’s Crafted Kinship 📕 + the Women in Revolt! podcast, & planning trips to Ditchling Museum of Craft’s Tadek Beutlich exhibition 🧵
Read more of our Jan picks: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
Read more of our Jan picks: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
January 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Our January roundup is out now over on Substack. We’ve been easing into the new year with Malene Barnett’s Crafted Kinship 📕 + the Women in Revolt! podcast, & planning trips to Ditchling Museum of Craft’s Tadek Beutlich exhibition 🧵
Read more of our Jan picks: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
Read more of our Jan picks: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
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Thinking about Gertrude Stein this morning:
A sentence is an imagined masterpiece. A sentence is an imagined frontispiece. In looking up from her embroidery she looks at me. She lifts up the tapestry. It is partly. Think in stitches. Think in settlements. Think in willows.
A sentence is an imagined masterpiece. A sentence is an imagined frontispiece. In looking up from her embroidery she looks at me. She lifts up the tapestry. It is partly. Think in stitches. Think in settlements. Think in willows.
January 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Thinking about Gertrude Stein this morning:
A sentence is an imagined masterpiece. A sentence is an imagined frontispiece. In looking up from her embroidery she looks at me. She lifts up the tapestry. It is partly. Think in stitches. Think in settlements. Think in willows.
A sentence is an imagined masterpiece. A sentence is an imagined frontispiece. In looking up from her embroidery she looks at me. She lifts up the tapestry. It is partly. Think in stitches. Think in settlements. Think in willows.
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Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026.
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Work with us - Royal Society of Literature
Literature for Everyone The RSL team is led by an ethos of respect and compassion for each other and the communities we work with, and these values are reflected in everything we do. We believe litera...
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January 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Applications for 2025 Illustrator in Residence now open at The RSL for twelve months to explore the relationship between literature and illustration. This is a paid residency of £5,000 from springtime 2025 until springtime 2026.
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✨ Our first Modernist Maker feature of 2025 celebrates modern artists’ jewellery - from Peggy Guggenheim’s fabulous earring collection to Surrealist accessories crafted by a master goldsmith and jewellery made by Picasso for friends & lovers ✨
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January 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
✨ Our first Modernist Maker feature of 2025 celebrates modern artists’ jewellery - from Peggy Guggenheim’s fabulous earring collection to Surrealist accessories crafted by a master goldsmith and jewellery made by Picasso for friends & lovers ✨
🔗 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-...
🔗 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-...
🌀 In our weekly newsletter, join us for a tour of The Cosmic House - a peculiar wonder of postmodernism
🪬Designed by & for Charles Jencks, the anthropomorphic home is currently host to a site specific installation by artists Tai Shani. Shani sets up a sensuous, surreal dialogue with the interior.
🪬Designed by & for Charles Jencks, the anthropomorphic home is currently host to a site specific installation by artists Tai Shani. Shani sets up a sensuous, surreal dialogue with the interior.
December 19, 2024 at 7:09 PM
🌀 In our weekly newsletter, join us for a tour of The Cosmic House - a peculiar wonder of postmodernism
🪬Designed by & for Charles Jencks, the anthropomorphic home is currently host to a site specific installation by artists Tai Shani. Shani sets up a sensuous, surreal dialogue with the interior.
🪬Designed by & for Charles Jencks, the anthropomorphic home is currently host to a site specific installation by artists Tai Shani. Shani sets up a sensuous, surreal dialogue with the interior.
Our monthly modernist digest looks at the work of the Omega Workshops, inspired by a visit to Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston at Sotheby’s - our faves inc. Wyndham Lewis’ striking orange robe & Vanessa Bell’s The Party (the painting thought to have inspired Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway!)
November 25, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Our monthly modernist digest looks at the work of the Omega Workshops, inspired by a visit to Radical Modernity: From Bloomsbury to Charleston at Sotheby’s - our faves inc. Wyndham Lewis’ striking orange robe & Vanessa Bell’s The Party (the painting thought to have inspired Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway!)
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"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:57 PM
"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org
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I have made a starter pack for researchers working on modernist and avant-garde women. Absolutely not comprehensive, just put some names down to get the list started - please let me know if you want to be removed/added!
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November 19, 2024 at 10:15 AM
I have made a starter pack for researchers working on modernist and avant-garde women. Absolutely not comprehensive, just put some names down to get the list started - please let me know if you want to be removed/added!
go.bsky.app/VSS1aBR
go.bsky.app/VSS1aBR
📩 Jeremy Deller and Ed Hall's banners make space for William Morris, Morris dancers, acid house, brass bands, gurning competitions, and art to coexist...
#banner #textile #craft
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#banner #textile #craft
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Review: Jeremy Deller's banners unpick Britishness
An exhibition of the Turner Prize winner's banners, made in collaboration with Ed Hall, in Glasgow...
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November 17, 2024 at 10:46 AM
📩 Jeremy Deller and Ed Hall's banners make space for William Morris, Morris dancers, acid house, brass bands, gurning competitions, and art to coexist...
#banner #textile #craft
decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/review-jer...
#banner #textile #craft
decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/review-jer...
👋 Hello! We're Decorating Dissidence - a project documenting craft and making from modernism to now
✂️For radical histories of craft, modernist maker profiles, interviews with artists, curators & makers, reviews, guest essays and more, subscribe to our newsletter ✉️
decoratingdissidence.substack.com
✂️For radical histories of craft, modernist maker profiles, interviews with artists, curators & makers, reviews, guest essays and more, subscribe to our newsletter ✉️
decoratingdissidence.substack.com
Decorating Dissidence | Substack
Craft culture, interviews & more! Click to read Decorating Dissidence, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
decoratingdissidence.substack.com
November 17, 2024 at 8:57 AM
👋 Hello! We're Decorating Dissidence - a project documenting craft and making from modernism to now
✂️For radical histories of craft, modernist maker profiles, interviews with artists, curators & makers, reviews, guest essays and more, subscribe to our newsletter ✉️
decoratingdissidence.substack.com
✂️For radical histories of craft, modernist maker profiles, interviews with artists, curators & makers, reviews, guest essays and more, subscribe to our newsletter ✉️
decoratingdissidence.substack.com
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Friends, new and old! My book is 40% off with code EXMSTA24 for a short time. Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 8, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Friends, new and old! My book is 40% off with code EXMSTA24 for a short time. Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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For the launch of the Turner Prize @decodissidence.bsky.social published an interview I did with nominee Delaine Le Bas over the summer. We talked about stitching feminist histories, thinking back through our grandmothers & commemorating lost art from marginalised people. More: bit.ly/3XVqN4T
September 25, 2024 at 5:39 PM
For the launch of the Turner Prize @decodissidence.bsky.social published an interview I did with nominee Delaine Le Bas over the summer. We talked about stitching feminist histories, thinking back through our grandmothers & commemorating lost art from marginalised people. More: bit.ly/3XVqN4T
RIP Faith Ringgold (1930-2024), who leaves an incredible legacy after a life dedicated to art &activism. In story quilts such as the French Collection, she used textile art to intervene in narratives of art history & modernism, rewriting the canon to centre the Black female gaze.
April 14, 2024 at 8:17 AM
RIP Faith Ringgold (1930-2024), who leaves an incredible legacy after a life dedicated to art &activism. In story quilts such as the French Collection, she used textile art to intervene in narratives of art history & modernism, rewriting the canon to centre the Black female gaze.