Pod Projects - Projects

The Knitting Salon at Artwork mk

Salon Bench Newcastle-Gateshead

Salon Bench Milton Keynes

Salon Bench Talgarth

The Knitting Salon

Installation by Trevor Pitt & Kate Pemberton

Artworks-mk, Milton Keynes

19 July to 21 August 2010

For Artworks-mk, Pitt and Pemberton recreate The Knitting Salon project as an intriguing installation that resembles a suburban hairdressers. Visitors can knit and chat on the 5 Salon Benches that have been knitted and felted by groups using locally sourced wool in Northampton, Devon, Birmingham, Milton Keynes and Bristol.

An Incidental Estate

Trevor Pitt and Carolyn Morton

In a parking bay on Colmore Row, Birmingham

14 June 2010 11am - 6.30pm

Plants, turf and mulch have been borrowed from the back gardens, council estates and parks across Birmingham for a day to create a suburban garden in the heart of the city.

An Incidental Estate was commissioned for Road Works curated by Rob Colbourne, Rob Hewitt & Alex Johnson.

Salon Bench Newcastle-Gateshead, 2010

Joss Wrigg + local knitters, felters and spinners

Salon Bench Newcastle is being produced through a collaborative process led by Joss Wrigg with local knitters, felters and spinners.

The finished Salon Bench Newcastle-Gateshead will be exhibited at The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead as part of their Summer exhibition Craftivism; Objects to Change the World :10 July - 7 November 2010.

Salon Bench London, 2010

Rachel Matthews + London knitters

Prick Your Finger, London

Salon Bench London is being made through a collaborative process led by Rachel Matthews with local knitters.

The bench is being made using a 100% British Herdwick that has been genously donated by The Herdy Company for the project.

www.herdy.co.uk

Salon Bench Roving Devon, 2010

Carolyn Morton with Terri Bate, Mary R De Salis, Jill Morris, Cassian Bennett, Jenny Tunley-Price, Mary Toon, Jae Burgin, Jane Deane, Amanda Pellatt, Beryl Pitt, Jenny Tunley-Price, Cath Baynton, Hannah Parsons, Jacqueline Welby, Jill Morris, Kathryn Saunby and Jules Bryant

Salon Bench Roving Devon was produced through a collaborative process led by Carolyn Morton as she travelled around Devon.

Salon Bench Northampton, 2010

Abi Jackson with Janet Jackson, Gloria Marriott, Barbara Hughes, Petrina O'Neill, Janet Jackson, Su Jackson, Connie Butler, Barbara Isaac, Katie Ingram, Jane Roberts and Sue Watson + The Guild of Longdrawer Spinners

Stitch & Make Studio, Northampton, UK

Salon Bench Northampton is being produced through a collaborative process led by Abi Jackson at her Stitch and Make Studio in Northampton with local knitters and spinners.

Salon Bench Birmingham, 2010

Trevor Pitt with Sara Fowles, Sue Fallon, Eleanor Chalkney, Jen Mercer, John Mercer, Beatrice Ashford, Margaret, Sharon Baker, Doreen Baker, Inge Riley, Munazza Quadir, Clare Atfield, Clare Savage, Alice Bazen, Anee-Marie Porter, Ruth Watts, Christina Watts, Kathryn Teece, Charlie McAllister and Beryl Pitt.

Salon Bench Talgarth

Ann Rowson + Talgarth knitters

Salon Bench Talgarth is being produced through a collaborative process led by Ann Rowson with local knitters using Black Welsh Mountain wool.

Trevor Pitt is working with Deirdre Buckley at Craftspace to shape and develop a project that is aimed at diverse young people aged 16 -19 from inner city Birmingham (some of whom are not in education, employment and training) but who have some interest/ability in the arts. The project focuses on ideas of guerrilla craft, DIY Craft and Craftivism - with a view to developing a young people led craft collective which will then organise a series of interventions throughout the city.

http://craftspacecollective.wordpress.com/

Sleeve Notes Go Viral,

Vivid, Birmingham, UK

27 March - 27 April 2010

On Saturday 27^th March we launched the next phase of the project at the We Are Eastside open weekend where digital meets analogue as artist Shelli Graham uncovered artefacts made in response to the Sleeve Notes sessions, 2009

The Knitting Salon

Trevor Pitt + Kate Pemberton

Craftivism

Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

12 December 2009 - 14 February 2010

The Knitting Salon is a project by Trevor Pitt and Kate Pemberton that promotes the sharing of knitting skills via the use of a specially designed mobile salon that comprises of 8 Salon Benches that are being made by knitting groups throughout the UK.

(image by Gina Lundy)

Salon Bench Knowle West, 2009

Trevor Pitt + Knowle West knitters + Pauline Hicks + Alison Haggas + Wooly Shepherd

Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, UK

Salon Bench Knowle West has been produced through a collaborative process led by Trevor Pitt and will be presented as part of The Knitting Salon project at Craftivsim, Anolfini Gallery from 12 December 2009.

(image by Gina Lundy)

Soft Bench at Open Source Embroidery, 2009

Trevor Pitt + Glebe Farm knitters

Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco

2 October 2009 - 24 January 2010

Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden

6 June - 9 September 2009

Artefacts and images from the Soft Bench project are part of a major exhibition that brings together individual and collectively made artworks that explore the relationship between craft and code through social and digital networks.

(image of PK1 pattern by Keith Stephenson)