Donate below to the University of Manchester student occupation for supplies like food, water and everyday essentials to help keep the encampment going until the university ends it's complicity with Israel's horrific genocide in Gaza.
chuffed.org/project/109503…

Embroidery and power.

Looking forward to joining this event in Lancaster at the weekend and talking/thinking about the threads connecting colour, cotton, soil and compost 🌱🪱🧵🪡🌸 2-4 May, sign up here🔽

Spend a lovely afternoon at the Hulme Garden Centre with the Stitch Social Groups 🌹 And my stitching of the day.

Seeking football fans to participate in biomaterials research project #football #biomaterials #research #football jersey #fashion #materials Claudia E Henninger Jane Wood Alejandro Gallego Schmid Dr Laura Pottinger Songyi Yan

There's so many things that are fucked about Britain but a load of people walking slowly through cities saying they don't agree with genocide really isn't one of them

Seeking football fans to participate in biomaterials research project #football #biomaterials #research #football jersey #fashion #materials Claudia E Henninger Jane Wood Alejandro Gallego Schmid Dr Laura Pottinger Songyi Yan

This was a really fun way to spend a chilly afternoon 🪡🧵🧶❄️ Loved meeting everyone at the first SEED Stitch Social The University of Manchester & seeing so many great creative projects in the making. Looking forward to more meet ups in the new year!

Looking forward to giving a talk next Monday for Manchester Geographical Society. I'll be speaking about multi-sensory geographies of colour in research on natural dyeing & recent #BTB23 #LITMUS exhibition with Nat Linney & the #CottonopolisCollective . Will bring along some textiles pieces too 🪡

the first paper from my PhD has been published in Soc Sci & Medicine, as part of a SI on the changing practices of QH research

taking a care-full and crip approach, I discuss the importance of being flexible in research with Disabled and chronically ill people:

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In an attempt to channel my frustration into an artwork, I re-drew the embroidery pattern of Gazan women dress collars as a visual representation of the death count of October.

Listen from 10.30mins to hear a snippet about our exhibition 'Litmus: Environmental Legacies of Cotton' for British Textile Biennial 2023 #BTB23

On until 29th October at Queen Street Mill Burnley Thurs to Sun 10-4pm.

Dr Laura Pottinger Erin Beeston Arianna Tozzi ariannatozzi.bsky.social

See britishtextilebiennial.co.uk/programme/litm…