Youtube Video Gallery
For many years Studio Galli Productions has been commissioned to produce artist portraits, exhibition interviews, and archival video for everyone from the Surface Design Association to the London Knitting & Stitching Show. These videos which have amassed thousands of views on Youtube are now available for your enjoyment directly from our website. Click on an image to enjoy the full screen video presentation.
Video Highlights from the Knitting & Stitching Shows - London, Harrogate & Dublin
Clay and Thread: Alice Kettle and Helen Felcey
‘Place Settings’ exhibits works by Helen Felcey, a ceramicist known for delicate and distinctive unglazed bone china tablewares, and Alice Kettle, a textile artist familiar for her expressive machine stitched works. The collaboration is a table setting, porcelain pieces conversing with a stitched landscape cloth.
Tom Lundberg Embroidery: Microcosms
The embroideries of Tom Lundberg take a variety of forms; badges, pockets, and footsteps are among the shapes that become emblems of memory, everyday life, and human movement. Within his thread pictures, stitches intersect and overlap to form densely layered microcosms.
Michael Swaine: "Mending for the People" Tenderloin, San Francisco
Once a month Michael Swaine travels to San Francisco’s neediest neighbourhood, the ‘Tenderloin’ where he offers all-day free mending, friendship, and conversation. His mending is not only about the clothes — it is about the community, the people in it, and his own needs to find comfort in a world that is so used to throwing things away.
Video Highlights from the Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England
Dorothy Caldwell Quilts: Marking the Every Day
Sunshine & Surprise, African American Quilts - Yoshiko I. Wada, Curator
Philippa Naylor Quilting Artist - Free Motion Machine Quilting Demonstration
Susan Brandeis Retrospective: Quilting & Surface Design, 1978-2008
Tivaevae Quilting Treasures from the Cook Islands, New Zealand
Lilian Hedley's North Country Quilting: Strippys & Tupenny Feathers
Lilian Hedley lives in Durham in the North of England. She is regarded as one of the finest creators of hand stitched whole cloth (single fabric) quilts. Lilian talks about and demonstrates the historical process of North Country quilting as well as the production of ‘commercial’ style quilts that featured Strippys and Tupenny Feathers. A rare glimpse into the work of one of the finest whole cloth quilters in the world today.
Susan Shie: This American Life • from the UK Festival of Quilts
Susan Shie is an American Quilter based in New York. She traveled to Birmingham, England for the 2010 Festival of Quilts to present an exhibition of her work, entitled ‘This American Life’. Susan’s work is as much a journaling of her views as it is a testimony to her excellence in quilting. Working with an airbrush and pens she creates portraits of persons, places and events that are interwoven with her ideas, thoughts and experiences.
Gloria Loughman: Quilting the Australian Outback
Gloria Loughman is a celebrated author and quilt artist from Australia. She enjoys camping in the outback and often draws inspiration from her trips with her family. In this film we follow Gloria on a trip to her exhibition on the show floor at the NEC in Birmingham, England. She discusses her work in detail.
Produced by Studio Galli for Creative Exhibitions, Ltd., London, England
Richard Box: From Drawing to Free Hand Machine Embroidery
Richard Box is the author of several drawing and illustration books available from SEARCH PRESS. He is as well a well-known sewing machine free-hand embroiderer who works from illustrations of animals, flowers — just about anything to produce wonderful embroidered recreations on textile using straight stitch on a sewing machine. We caught up with Richard at the Knitting & Stitching Show at the National Exhibition Centre in Great Britain and had the chance to visit his booth and see some wonderful demonstrations!
Jane Dunnewold: Intimate Conversations
For the 2010 Festival of Quilts Jane Dunnewold developed a body of work that was designed around repurposed fabrics, linens, tablecloths, and clothing that represents, to her, the intimate encounters we have in our lives. She utilised several dyeing and printing techniques, always mindful of the relationship between the design element and the theme of her work. Courtesy of Creative Exhibitions, Ltd., London, England.
Rozanne Hawksley:
In the Beginning
Rozanne Hawksley’s extraordinary art covers the great themes of life; love and loss, war and suffering, isolation and the abuse of power, by focusing in on intimate details of what they mean to a specific individual. This installation takes the viewer back to previously unseen, early work from the artist, some of it never completed. Including insightful sketches of herself and others, the artist has revisited these pieces to create a new work that is a commentary on modern life, its stresses and joys.
Chunghie Lee: Pojagi Korean Wrapping Cloths (and Beyond)
Pojagi (‘Po-Jah-ki’) Korean traditional wrapping cloths were originally made by nameless women throughout the Choson dynasty. (1392-1910).
“Pojagi and Beyond”, as Lee refers to her course at the Rhode Island School of Design and in traveling exhibitions from Hawaii to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, is one Korean woman’s passion for creative fibre arts and her desire to teach others so that they may find in Pojagi the freedom and expression she finds from this ancient Korean art form.
