Our latest post is on The Philosophy of Vegetable Dyes with Ethel M. Mairet!

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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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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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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 🧵
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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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🌀 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.

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!)

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.

Our Jan Modernist Maker Digest celebrates Clarice Cliff, 125 years after her birth ✨ Cliff’s journey from working-class girl to pioneer of Art Deco ceramics led her to study at the Royal Academy of Art & collab w/ leading 20thc artists, inc Barbara Hepworth & Vanessa Bell. ✉️https://t.co/R9Fy0gbRnG

Wishing all our followers a peaceful & relaxing festive period ✨ A huge thank you for your support this year 💖 our final newsletter of 2023 ft tips for exhibitions, books & opps to check out over the holidays - read it here: bit.ly/3GRT2rT

Modernist jewellery designer Art Smith (1917-1982) was at the centre of a flourishing Black queer creative scene in mid-century Greenwich Village. He made pieces for Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday & Eleanor Roosevelt & his handcrafted designs featured in Vogue. More in our newsletter: bit.ly/41qnnHb

Fabric of Democracy: Propaganda Textiles from the French Revolution to Brexit at Fashion & Textile Museum explores how textiles act as ‘highly charged political objects’, from Blitz dresses, Communist bedspreads & Brexit tea towels. Check out our interview w/ curator Amber Butchart: bit.ly/3GiBB3m

To mark the launch of @lwhalen.bsky.social ‘a Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern, we celebrate textile artist Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968) in our newsletter. Zorach’s stunning tapestries, rugs & clothing designs fused modernist forms w/ craft techniques.
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✉️ Check out our October craft & making round up for jobs & awards in the sector, plus spotlights on exciting new autumn exhibitions inc. Enam Gbewonyo at Nott New Art Exchange, the British Textile Bienniale & our round up of Frieze highlights! Don’t miss our latest updates, sign up: bit.ly/3FjEDnm

Our Modernist Makers this month are Hilary Bourne & Barbara Allen, a craft couple who were collaborators in life & creative practice. Their overlooked contribution to British Modernism is the focus of Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft’s new exhibition Double Weave 🧶 Read more: bit.ly/3LPxhvA

We’re delighted to host an online celebration of Amy Elkins’ book Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present on 15th Nov ⚡️Amy will be in conversation with the DD team & multimedia artist Kabe Wilson, whose work ft in her book
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