Edge - textile artists Scotland

Edge member Sheena Stone will be exhibiting a beautiful body of work from her residency at Abbotsford House home of Sir Walter Scott. A must see.

Edge student member, .macrae.art is currently showing this thought provoking work, ‘Everybody Lives Downstream’ at The Himalayan Garden and Sculpture Park’s exhibition, on now until November. The starting point for this project was a charity shop shirt. The piece explores how growing and manufacturing cotton damages plant diversity and human health. Dickens described our northern cotton towns as having stinking black canals and rivers running purple with evil smelling dye. Nowadays, the waterways filling up with polluted water are found in countries like India and China. As the botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer says, “What I do here, matters. Everybody lives downstream.” We can make other choices..

Discarded, tailor made cotton shirt, low impact dyes, hand and machine embroidery. The Hutts, Hutts Lane, Grewelthorpe, Ripon, HG4 3DA