Geek Crafting

The craft planets must have aligned big time lately because there are some great opportunities coming my way in the next few months. I have come to accept that my love of craft has geeky tendancies. In fact not just accept it, but embrace it, thrive on it, be proud of it.

I was enormously excited to have been told my proposal for Cornerhouse's Micro Commissions scheme was accepted. I can't say much more for now other than it will be a project management / curation thing combining textiles and technology. I will tell you more soon, because you'll all be invited to take part...

And on a similar theme, I've been invited to lead an event exploring cutting edge craft and technology cross-over. Again I'm sworn to secrecy for now, but I am fairly bowled over that one of the other people involved is ceramicist Michael Eden, maker of the Babel vessel pictued above. It's currently touring as part of the Crafts Council exhibition Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft.