Sketchbook project in cyberspace

About this time last year, I signed up to participate in a really exciting project based in the USA.  It involved being sent a moleskin sketchbook and using any medium and any technique to fill it.  The deadline was January 2011 after which it would fly around 10 different states, stopping at each to let anyone who wanted to to take it out of its shelf and browse its pages.  It’s such a fantastic idea and I was very excited to be involved.  You can read all about it on my earlier post here.  The end of the tour culminated in all the books being catalogued and held in perminant residence at the Brooklyn Art Library in New York.  And now, the books are in digitised format.  Its so amazing that with the help of the internet you can now view a selection of the books from the comfort of your comfy sofa, no matter where in the world you are.

View My book (and many others) over at the Sketchbook Project Digitized Library

2011 Sketchbook Project Tour Seattle from mightymoss on Vimeo.

You can also participate in the 2012 sketchbook project too, it’s even more exciting as it visits the UK and Australia as well as the US!

Stitching up The Tate

On Friday 2nd September Tate Britain held one of it’s Late at Tate Britain evenings.  Titled ‘Restless Times’ it was part of the exhibition which is currently being held at the gallery and is part of the Great British Art Debate, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Stitch London and Knit The City were asked to hold a graffiti knitting workshop and so, Knit The City were given free rein to graffiti up the Tate.  Such an offer could not be refused!  Deadly Knitshade and I embraced the task ahead of us and decided to storm around the main columns in the main hall near to the Octagon.  With Rag&Bow; The roaming vintage store interactive fashion experience just behind us and the collection display galleries to the left of us being transformed into a visual display of beautiful light bouncing off the paintings that live there, we set about to brighten up the posts with our sticks and string (and in my case hook!)…

All items handmade by The Fastener – Stick man handmade by Deadly Knitshade.