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Check out this beaut captains chair and stool expe

Check out this beaut captains chair and stool expertly upholstered by @the_upholstery_lady for @kristy_mc_ & @newanalogdesign in my Cartilage Psychedelia cell print fabric.

Follow the link in my bio to order from my full range of science inspired fabric designs 👀

You can order each design in a range of fabrics so if you can’t see the fabric type you are looking for, get in touch!

#cellprints #wtccmr #artsci

Join me @yspsculpture for a two day print workshop

Join me @yspsculpture for a two day print workshop!

Starting with a mindful forage around Silence: Alone in a World of Wounds to collect and observe nature, you will then explore gel and screen printing with natural forms to create your own collection of framed textile prints.  

Suitable for ages 16+

Saturday's 17th & 24 September, 10.30am –13.30pm

Entry to the sculpture park is included.

£80 per person.

Follow the link in my bio to book.

#ysp #yorkshiresculpturepark #printworkshops

BOBBINS! / Art Assembly Manchester 2022 Earlier t

BOBBINS! / Art Assembly Manchester 2022

Earlier this year I was one of the commissioned artists for @artfund Art Assembly Manchester.

Collaborating with a group of students from @fineartsalford we spent an incredible six months working together to create a new piece of public artwork for the one day festival that took place across the city on the 18th June 2022.

Appearing @fredaldous, Piccadilly 111 @bruntwood @mcrartgallery & Sackville Gardens, Bobbins! hoped to raise awareness about women's issues that often are hidden, taboo or ignored in both a historical and contemporary context and highlight how glacially slow change happens.

Collaborating with the folk arts group Oakenhoof, the commission also featured participatory maypole dancing and singing which took place in Sackville
Gardens and was inspired by late 19th century protest & women's rights banners and mid 18th century folk ballads.

Follow the link in my bio to read the accompanying text for this commission which includes our making process and the complete lyrics to the folk songs.

So many skilled, knowledgeable and generous people supported this commission.

Special thanks to:

@daniel_james_pickles at Salford University
Oakenhoof
Helen Davies & Robin Chicot of Oakenhoof
@fredaldous
@needlewomanjess
@wecnc_
Fergus Wilde at Chetham's Library
Lindsey Cole at the Working Class Movement Library
Kayleigh Crawford & Kloe Rumsey at The Peoples History Museum

+ all the brilliant people who joined our maypole dancing and of course the fantastic BA (Hons) Fine Art students:

Suzanne Atkinson, Grecia Balassone, Emma Lea Bennett, India Buxton, Jemma Calvert, Magdalena Kij, Lucy Claire & Danielle Wilton

📸 @xtofallabout for @artfund

#artassembly #bobbins #oakenhoof

Anyone who has been within a few feet of me in the

Anyone who has been within a few feet of me in the past few months will have most likely had their ear chewed off about Art Assembly which I've been busy working on with an incredible group of students from @fineartsalford

Well it's here at last!

This Saturday you can find our work at various locations around the city including the mighty @fredaldous @mcrartgallery #Piccadilly111 & #SackvilleGardens where we have been collaborating with Oakenhoof, a community folk arts group to bring you a very special maypole dance where the 1700's and modern day collide.

No more spoilers, come see for yourself 👁

Follow the link in my bio to see the full programme.

There is loads of other great stuff happening including work from:

@parham.ghalamdar
@annafcsmith
@helencmather
@robert___parkinson
@maya_chowdhry
@_olivia_ggg
@samowenhull
@dvd_mcf
@raheelkhan____

Art Assembly is a one-day festival of art, brought to you by @Artfund with some of Manchester’s leading arts organisations.

Everyone's invited on 18 June 2022 in Manchester.

#artassembly

@islingtonmill

This weekend! Join me to take part in the National

This weekend! Join me to take part in the National Festival of Making⁠.

I will be running a drop in workshop with @superslowway where you will be able to print your own tote bag to take away with you.

The National Festival of Making is a unique celebration of making from the kitchen table to the factory floor, encompassing making of all scales.

There is something for everyone at this FREE FAMILY festival.

Bookable and drop-in making workshops; art and industry commissions; artisan craft and local food producers markets; community projects; and celebratory music and performance and much, much more - bringing us all together through shared joyous experiences!
⁠
The fourth edition of the National Festival of Making weekend returns to Blackburn, Lancashire on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th of June 2022⁠. ⁠
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⁠#festivalofmaking #artinmanufacturing #getreadytomake #screenprinting #superslowway #superslowwaylinearpark
@thefestivalofmaking

QUEENS OF THE NORTH ♥️ Alternative jubilee ar

QUEENS OF THE NORTH ♥️

Alternative jubilee artwork for @beezoup @duciestreet @nativeplacesuk featuring a selection of the performers from the bank holiday weekend

@dj_paulette1
@hrhlill
@j3nnag
@mix_stress
@memegold
@therealbanksie

+ crowns off to all the queens who were part of the stellar line up, I could have filled the entire space with each & every one of you 👑

📸 @jodyhartley
🪡 @needlewomanjess

This week i've had the absolute pleasure of workin

This week i've had the absolute pleasure of working @yspsculpture alongside the incredible Full Circle exhibition by David Nash.

I spent a couple of days with pupils at West Bretton School creating screen prints inspired by his work.

I also delivered a stencilling workshop with families exploring the same process that Nash uses to create some of his pastel work.

Such beautiful and inspirational work and props to dream team @emmammspencer & @kathrynbrame 🤘🏻

Heads & hearts brimming with all the good stuff 💚

#davidnash #davidnashsculpture #YSPFamily #YSPSchools #YSP #unisoncolour @unisoncolour

I had the BEST day running screen printing worksho

I had the BEST day running screen printing workshops @stationsouth as part of their @crowdfunderuk campaign.

If you haven’t already visited, you absolutely should.

A beautiful heritage restoration of a railway station into a vibrant community hub at the heart of #Levenshulme.

With one of the best @moderaterealism at the helm, it’s a banger!

Congratulations team @stationsouth!

Creative plans are afoot, watch this space 👀

Custom hand screen printed gown & scarf made for H

Custom hand screen printed gown & scarf made for Helen of @kloshband.

Give them a follow for some gorgeous ear food incoming soon!

Sewist @needlewomanjess
Jewellery @wonderhaus_mcr @wainman_design
MUA @victoriathomas_makeupartist
Location @islingtonmill

On Monday 9th May from 7pm @nipandtipple in Manche

On Monday 9th May from 7pm @nipandtipple in Manchester, I’m going to be part of a printy playful event

‘BECOMING THE MATRIX’ ⚡️🧠⚡️

Alongside other amazing science bods from the Wellcome Centre for Cell Matrix Research, we will be bring you a fun packed evening as part of @pintofscience festival.

Learn loads of interesting stuff about how the cells in your body work, sink a few pints & get your print on with our interactive game!

Follow the link in my bio to find out more and to book tickets. It’s a limited capacity event so grab em while you can!

#pintofscience
#wtccmr
#cellmatrix
@creativerxns

Print // Process As part of EDIT02 (see previous

Print // Process

As part of EDIT02 (see previous post) we also exhibited a selection of enlarged digital prints taken from hand screen printed motifs created during the residency with young people @islingtonmill.

This work including the bioquilt, sound piece and projection was also featured as part of Uncommon Ground, a one day symposium with @aceagrams exploring socially engaged arts practice.

📸 @jodyhartley

Looking back through previous commissions, I wante

Looking back through previous commissions, I wanted to share this beaut from 2018 that was an absolute joy to create with @vickyclarke_sound & @print_pattern_archive @the_lowry as part for their EDIT exhibition series.

"Working together @sally_gilford @vickyclarke_sound @print_pattern_archive worked with young people associated with The Lowry on a week-long residency @islingtonmill. They used a mixture of innovative digital and traditional techniques to turn the young people's data and stories into a large quilt and immersive installation of sounds and projections."

The bioquilt concept incorporates a traditional quilt format; early quilts were sewn together using fabric fragments, documenting birth, death, marriage and family domesticity. Pieces were intricately sewn into quilt blocks using old clothes and textiles that held, quite literally the fabric of life. Every cube holds the bioprint of one of the young adults; the design in each cube is an abstraction from work created during the residency.

One key process is the translation of human bio-data into generative digital imagery. Using a pulsometer, the rhythm of a human heart is captured; translating this varying voltage into ones and zeros. This binary information is woven into the code along with significant numbers from the young people’s lives. It is this uniquely human algorithm that generates each digital image. Participants were also encouraged to hack the code, alter the geometry and repeat.

The digital images created from the biodata were then screen printed onto fabric by the participants with each person curating the design, composition and colour palette.

Screen printing is an analogue process which is subject to many anomalies, such as human touch, divergent thought, time and environment. The outcomes can vary with each print, offering irregularities, deviations and unexpected results.

The soundscape features recordings from Islington Mill and the sonified print studio. Audio was recorded using mics to capture the sounds of materials, process and the gestural actions of the participants.

Bioquilt fabrication @needlewomanjess
📸 @jodyhartley

Visit stockport underbanks to see this new work cr

Visit stockport underbanks to see this new work created by me, @tasha_whittle & @annelouisekershaw as part of @underbanks_sk

Inspired by the three converging rivers, the industrious people of Stockport and botanicals found along the water's edge, you can venture up the steps by the Queens Heads to find it nestled away between Petersgate and the #Underbanks.

Running clear from Stockport to the sea

We are the source of the spring

You can put a well pretty much anywhere in Stockport and life will come from it

This is where things begin

botanical prints & screen prints onto wood / @sally_gilford
paint & illustration / @tasha_whittle
words / @annelouisekershaw
Vinyl & wood cut / @m3inds

@heritagefunduk @totallystockport
#RediscoveringTheUnderbanks

Repost from @castlefieldgall 🎉 Art Assembly i

Repost from @castlefieldgall 🎉

Art Assembly is a one day festival advocating art and creativity for all ages, brought to you by Art Fund with Castlefield Gallery, HOME, Manchester Art Gallery, The Whitworth and The Manchester College.

Congratulations to the Greater Manchester artists who have been commissioned to create new work and who are joining us today to start shaping the programme for Art Assembly.

Parham Ghalamdar, Anna FC Smith & Helen Mather and Robert Parkinson will be working with The Manchester College.

Sally Gilford is working with the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology at University of Salford and Maya Chowdhry with Manchester School of Art.

Olivia Glasser, Sam Owen Hull and David McFarlane with Raheel Khan will be creating work with schools in collaboration with MADE, Manchester’s cultural educational partnership.

Follow #artassembly for updates

@artfund @homemcr @mcrartgallery @whitworthart @themcrcollege @uos_artsmedia @mcrschart @made_mcr @aceagrams @officialuom @manchestercitycouncil

📸 @wildjesse

CUSTOM BUCKET HAT Made to measure in my Cartilag

CUSTOM BUCKET HAT

Made to measure in my Cartilage Psychedelia fabric.

Choose from heavy weight cotton or waterproof oil cloth ☔️

This fabric is created from a hand screen printed motif using original images of microscopic cells in collaboration with researchers from the Welcome Centre for Cell Matrix Research at the University of Manchester.

Follow the link in my bio to find out more about my work with science & research.

DM to order yours.

Sewist @needlewomanjess
Models @nullgrip @toe_mcr

#buckethat #customhat #wtccmr #cellprint #printspotters #hat #buckethatcustom

As part of @ysi_sculpture I have been working with

As part of @ysi_sculpture I have been working with a women's group in Wakefield to create new work exploring natural form and connecting to wellbeing through inspiring visits to @yspsculpture @theoakproject @joanavasconcelosatelier @hepworthwakefield and East Moor Community Garden in Wakefield of which they are members.

Using photography and print, everyone created their own collection of textile work along with a collaborative piece which will be exhibited at the garden centre.

We got to work outside, in nature, fuelled by many brews, many laughs, the best energy and beautiful souls.

I bloody love my job.

So after a REALLY long time, I got to run a screen

So after a REALLY long time, I got to run a screen printing sesh at my studio again! Eeeesh it’s been a while!

I hosted the design team from @vimto for a day of printy play where they got to bring their digital designs to life.

You were magic ⭐️

Here’s what they said...

“The Vimto creative team loved stepping away from one screen to pick up another one, by learning the amazing art of screen printing. Sally was really attentive and thorough with explaining the process and reasoning behind the techniques. We highly recommend getting your hands dirty with screen printing”

DM for private tuition & workshops, it’s loads of fun.

(Did you know that Vimto originated just around the corner from my studio @islingtonmill!)

#vimto #salfordheritage #islingtonmill #screenprinting #permaset #printspotters #printworkshops

I am chuffed to bits to announce that I have been

I am chuffed to bits to announce that I have been commissioned by @raybelcharters as part of @salford_makers to deliver a programme of creative engagement, connecting the local and wider community to the restoration of this beautiful vessel and its rich heritage.

We will be delivering workshops, artist mentoring and creating new collaborative work which will form part of their developing wharf, onsite museum and gallery in Sittingbourne, Kent.

Visit @raybelcharters to find out more about this brilliant project and all of the fantastic people making it happen.

More about the project...

"During the three decades that followed her launch in 1920, Sailing Barge Raybel delivered many thousands of tons of cargo under sail. Then the world changed, and diesel power became most favoured. But now, as we see the enormous damage being done to our environment by the burning of fossil fuels, values must shift again. And there are lessons to be learned from the past."

Alongside the restoration work, we are running a three-year programme of cultural and heritage events. Nor are we forgetting the skills needed to keep the heritage of Thames sailing barges alive – with training in traditional boat building and maintenance part of our plans.

This will be just the start of our community-based work: once restored Raybel will become a valuable asset for education, training and events – bringing together communities the length of the Thames Estuary, with each other, and with their shared river heritage.”

#miltoncreek #heritage #thamessailingbarge #sociallyengagedpractice #sittingbourne #salfordmakers #sailcargo #raybelcharters

Collaboration with @jessiemaylingerie SUMMER OF LO

Collaboration with @jessiemaylingerie SUMMER OF LOVE collection coming soon 👁

Bespoke made to order lingerie featuring a limited edition colour way of my cartilage psychedelia fabric.

#salfordmakers #cellprint #artscience #textiles #bespokelingerie

2009 - 2021 12 years of growth, learning, challen

2009 - 2021

12 years of growth, learning, challenges and endless joy.

There is no one else I would rather have spent it with.

As one chapter of life has come to an end and another begins, amidst so many exciting changes happening here @islingtonmill, not a day goes by where I don't miss working alongside you @moderaterealism.

You are brilliant. ❤️

AND check out that before and after skyline!

📸 @one69a islington mill attic
2021 / @jodyhartley
2009 / @manox_mcr

#one69a #islingtonmill

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