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.

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06 Sep This entry was published on September 6, 2011 at 3:31 pm. It’s filed under Amigurumi, I made this!, Knitting, Yarn Storms and tagged Amigurumi, art, craft, crochet, deadly knitshade, graffiti, guerilla knitting, heritage lottery fund, knit the city, knitting, knitting graffiti, late at tate britain, rag and bow, stitch london, street art, tate britain, the fastener, yarn bomb, yarn storm, yarnbomb, yarnbombing, yarnstorm. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.