mac birmingham
Tues 17 January, 7.30pm
FREE - booking essential
Sales & Info: 0121 446 3232

Trevor Pitt hosts an evening of lively conversation with men who have taken to needle and thread as their chosen means of expression.

David Littler (sampler-cultureclash), Jamie Chalmers (AKA Mr X Stitch), Stewart Easton (Four Tragic Tales) and TWIGGY (Birmingham) will talk about their artistic and conceptual approaches to the creative use of stitch.

FREE but booking is essential. 
For tickets call Sales & Information 0121 446 3232
http://www.macarts.co.uk/event/in-conversation-with-boys-who-sew

VIVID, Birmingham
Sat 12 Nov 9pm - 2am

Bent on vamping the tired club night formula, BANG! BANG! is the final in a trilogy of explosive art-parties-cum-club-nights curated by Trevor Pitt and played out at VIVID. 

DJ sets by: mini moderns // Brian Duffy (Modified Toy Orchestra) // Mazzy (Chicks Dig Jerks) // THIS IS TMRW

Tickets are £5

VIVID | 140 Heath Mill Lane | Birmingham | B9 4AR

AXIS.WEB

27 July 2011 

What does the word 'curate' mean to you?

Trevor Pitt was invited to write The Rant by Axis Webzine Editor, Lucy Bannister. Join in the online discussion about people's personal take on what curating means to them

Read and add to the online discussion

mac Birmingham

1 Aug - 11 September 2011

In association with mac birmingham, Trevor Pitt has devised the anticurate project as a challenge to the authorial figure of the curator. Imagined as a version of an open exhibition the project will unfold over six exhibitions in which democratic and collective approaches to exhibition curating will test conventions of the visual art space.

If you are interested in either submitting work, taking part in selecting work as an anticurator or visiting the exhibitions go to mac birmingham website for full details of how to get involved.

1 APRIL 2011, 9PM - 2AM

VIVID, BIRMINGHAM

Tickets are £5 in advance and available from theticketsellers.co.uk

Hot off the high-heels of Cum Clubbing, Trevor Pitt curates the second in a trilogy of events at VIVID - ‘Get Bent!’ is an eccentric club night inspired by pop culture’s affection for gender-bending. 

DJ sets by:

Brian Duffy (Modified Toy Orchestra)
Chicks Dig Jerks
Greg Haines (Tropical Hotdog)
John Napier (Jugend Klub)

Prick Your Finger, London

 Live music by Greg Bird & Flamingo Flame        Sex it up Please! performance by New Macho    Pop-UP photo studio by Joey Vivo

PLUS......   The Garage King and Queen beauty pageant hosted by TWIGGY

NEST, BIRMINGHAM

20 SEPTEMBER - 1 OCTOBER 2010

For Nest eight Salon Benches that have been made by knitting groups from across the UK will be exhibited made by groups in Milton Keynes, Northampton, Devon, Bristol, London, Birmingham, Talgarth, and Newcastle-Gateshead. Using selected fleeces and uniquely spun yarns, each group has worked with an artist to personalise their benches by applying a variety knitting and felting techniques.

THE PUBLIC, WEST BROMWICH

6 OCTOBER - 7 NOVEMBER 2010

For The Public eight Salon Benches that have been made by knitting groups from across the UK will be exhibited on the ground floor. The benches will be accompanied by resource trolleys to create a salon atmosphere and offered to members of the public as an arena for sharing knitting skills and conversations.

VIVID, BIRMINGHAM

FRIDAY 10 SEPTEMBER | 9PM - LATE 

For one night only VIVID hosts an art party inspired by the colourful club nights of Birmingham's underground scenes in the 1980s. VIVID's project space will be taken over by live music, DJs and visual artists who'll conspire to create an excitingly strange evening of camp disco!

Presented as part of Sleeve Notes, an ongoing project conceived during Trevor Pitt's residency at VIVID in 2009.

Tickets £5 | available from theticketsellers.

The Knitting Salon at Artwork mk

An Incidental Estate

Salon Bench Newcastle-Gateshead

Salon Bench London

Salon Bench Roving Devon

Salon Bench Northampton

Salon Bench Birmingham

Salon Bench Milton Keynes

Craftspace Collective 

Salon Bench Talgarth

THE SHIPLEY ART GALLERY, GATESHEAD

10 JULY - 7 NOVEMBER 2010

The Knitting Salon will be part The Shipley Art Gallery's Summer exhibition, Craftivism: Objects to Change the World. The project will be represented in the gallery by Salon Bench Newcastle- Gateshead and the making of Salon Bench The Shipley.

This exhibition combines historical and contemporary craft and craftivism  to reflect the different ways in which craft has been valued as a powerful force for social, political and personal change over the past 150 years. 

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

Zarah Savage with Rachael Matthews, Louise Harries, Terry Patterson, Jaqueline Peterson, Julie Robinson, Ceilidh Chaplin, Janice Seivey, Carolyne and Sue. 

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)

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)