(Above) A sewing project at Pallant House Gallery has found favour across the world
Event: Open Day, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, July 24 2010
As if the chance to see major summer exhibition Surreal Friends (read our review) without paying a penny wasn’t enough incentive to visit Chichester’s excellent Pallant House this Saturday, the Gallery is also offering visitors the chance to take part in a “radical sewing project” inspired by the show.
Inspired by the camaraderie theme, artist Lise Bjørne Linnert is looking for nimble-fingered accomplices to support Desconocida Unknown Ukjent, an international art project aiming to raise awareness of the fight to address women’s abuse, trafficking and murder through embroidery.
The annual free entry day at Pallant is always popular
Taking the critical situation in Mexican border city Juarez, where a string of brutalities have been committed against women during the past decade, the effort will embroider labels containing the names of dead and women missing from the area, or fashion a label with the word “unknown” in white silk thread.
They will ultimately become part of a growing installation at the gallery this October, standing alongside work by Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin in Contemporary Eye: Crossovers, the next blockbuster show heading to Pallant.
More than 2,000 people in 27 countries have participated in the project so far, exhibiting internationally and winning the Luleaa Summer Biennial Award in 2007.
Would-be weavers who can’t take part on Saturday are also invited to contact the gallery to receive a label in the post, which they can then return.
Takes place in Room 17 until September 12 2010. Free drop-in workshops take place in Room 11 on Saturday, 10.30am-12.30pm and 1.30pm-3.30pm.
