Co-hosted two entirely non-dread upcycling workshops with @delainelebas at @whitworthart a week or so ago. We used my natural inks to draw on paper and fabric, screen printed in the hottest of pinks, took inspiration from Delaine’s wardrobe (including a beloved, falling-to-bits, seen-it-all denim jacket) and generally had a giddy old time. Students from @mcrschart and public participants were all a delight to muck about with in the Whitworth’s garden and studio, with lots of experimentation taking place. Thanks to David Oates Photography for the beaut photos.
Thanks to everyone who swung by my stall at @saltaireinspired today! Lovely to meet you all and chat about prints, wasp placentas and turning overlooked things into beautiful objects. These one-off mini mono prints are all on natural dye, screen-printed paper and reflect the fact that I want to make everything teeny tiny / wee / diddy as all heck.
Really wonderful night at @whatif_stockport where you now can see the textile I designed, hanging as some very luxe curtains, to keep the community warm and cosy. Am not immune to feeling some mum-style pride at the rich, tetrapak prints that now cover the walls, too.
Hanging from the ceiling are textile banners that set out What If’s stall - RADICAL REST AND PLAY LIVE HERE - made by the community using curtain offcuts. It’s a glorious sentiment and testament to the can-do women who run this incredible space.
For the last four months I’ve been working on an incredible community project for @whatif_stockport , doing tetrapak printmaking workshops, textile banner making and surface pattern design. It started off with ‘Will you print us some new curtains, Wendy’ and then - through some very giddy project creep - ended with me swimming in design ideas drawn from local people and places. I have had an absolute ball and met some wonderful folk, so come and celebrate with us TOMORROW 7-9pm. The building is now warmer, darker and more beautiful, with a series of texty textile banners that make clear what the building is for.
You’ll get to see the enormous curtains I made, which provide a resilient thermal barrier to the building. My print pattern is covered in motifs developed from tetrapak printing plates, with shapes that reference Alexandra Park, Hollywood Park, Castle Street and the What If building (as well as the old bus depot, because I got a bit obsessed with its roof). Tomorrow night we’ll be making rope from the old curtains (always useful for rounding up nazis, I feel), having a nice glass of wine and admiring the gorgeous prints and banners made by the community. Everyone is welcome.
#radicalrestandplaylivehere
Wendy Roby is a printmaker whose work is rooted in transformation and resourcefulness. Using recycled materials, plant dyes, food waste, and scrap minerals, she creates prints that celebrate process as much as outcome. Working across natural dye screen printing, etching, and monoprint, her work embraces the hand of the maker, showing how printmaking can be playful, accessible, and endlessly inventive.
@roby_workshop will be at our fair on Sunday 26th April.
Liverpool Print Fair
Sat 25th and Sun 26th April
11am–5pm at @the_bluecoat
#liverpoolprintfair #screenprint #sustainableart #printmaking
THURSDAY 23rd APRIL
Creative Retrofit Launch Party & Exhibition 7-9pm
Wine, and cheese, gentle tunes, banner art, community designed curtains, tetrapack art display, a chance to make new rope from old fabric? Yes. Link in bio for tickets
Come to @whatif_stockport for the unveiling of our refreshed look and feel and learn how Edgeley inspired it.
We’ve gathered people, stories and skills to make a locally inspired legacy of warmth and “useful beauty” now hanging at What if?
An evening to celebrate pattern, design and how making a building more energy efficient can be a brilliant excuse for ART, IDEAS and COLLABORATION.
This project has been beautifully crafted and executed by the wonderful @wendyrobyartist@roby_workshop and supported through the first phase of resilience building transformation work with @sp_global and @rcitiesnetwork@zzurichfoundation all contributing towards the success!
Colour, sustainability and vintage style are at the heart of this limited edition collection of sweats and tees 👕 from local artist and printmaker @roby_workshop 🌈.
Inspired by the vibrant and thought-provoking Delaine le Bas exhibition @whitworthart , each garment is truly unique having been sourced from charity shops and vintage wholesalers. Wendy laundered and repaired each item, created hand cut paper stencils and used water based inks to screen print a graphic reinterpretation of a detail from an iconic @delainelebas work from the exhibition onto the garments.
If you are a fan of pre-loved clothing and like to fuse art and fashion in your wardrobe then this collection is for you ✨!
Available in our Gallery shop and online.
#TheWhitworthShop #ArtInThePark #GalleryInThePark #WhitworthShop #galleryshop #museumshop #WhitworthExhibitions #exhibitiongifts #exhibitionexclusives #exhibitionart #artgifts #modernart #DelaineLeBas #SpringAtTheGallery #MythAndMagic #DelaineLeBas #FeministFolklore
I think most brains are quite childish in aspect and mine is no different; every day a school for this 12 year old boy stuck in a 50 year old woman's body who still sniggers at the word 'boff'. In other news I love monotype writing SO MUCH for its ability to capture haste and wrongness - all those wrong-way capitals give me LIFE.
🥑 🥑 I have put some avocado ink in my shop. It is properly wonderful, syrupy stuff. 🥑 🥑
It is also the bloodiest batch I have ever made and there are only 12 bottles available.
Draw The Curtains - TEXTILE BANNER MAKING DAY! Sewing enthusiasts we need you! Sign up to get involved on the link in our bio!
A day of social stitch, making textile banners that celebrate the next chapter of What If?
JOIN US for a FREE day of social stitch, making textile banners to celebrate the emergence of a new community space for Stockport.
Together we can celebrate PLAY and REST and the JOY of RESILIENCE by using offcuts from our new, custom-print textile. Whether you book in for our whole day - or a shorter sewing sprint - full tuition will be given and we’ll keep the brews and biscuits in good supply.
Full day workshoppers can expect a free communal lunch with fellow sewists and makers. And though we’ll have all the gear, we’d love you to bring a sewing machine if you have one. That way, we can make more beautiful, celebratory things!
Our textile banner day will be led by Wendy Roby, a textile artist who has co-designed a bespoke print that celebrates all things Edgeley and will live and be loved in What if?. You’ll be able to learn Wendy’s favourite textile treatments and use recycled textiles to make the banners which will be hung from cast iron banners in our great community hall.
#sewingproject #stockport #banners #curtains #fabric
