Rachael Pilston

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Wall hanging, a prop commissioned for a secret upcoming Sky TV series.... Gingham, velour and ribbons. 

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Made by Me

As more people start to experiment with the ease of learning to make yourself more establishments begin to offer craft workshops. One of them is Peckham Craft Weekend Peckham Craft Weekend opened its doors for the first time in May this year after four hectic weeks of planning for the

Peckham Craft Weekend featured on Made By Me.

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Had a brilliant time in the beautiful Brecon Beacons for Greenman festival. Textile art under mountains...

T A N G L E // An activity and installation devised with researchers from the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL - an activity designed to represent how scientists gather the threads of people’s lives and weave them together to answer research questions. More than 600 people answered questions on variables such as memory and health behaviours and made their own life course out of strands of coloured fabric. 

Devised with UCL researchers, Ellen Divine of EINSTEIN”S GARDEN at Greenman Festival 2017.

Textile Artist - Rachael Pilston. 

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P E C K H A M  C R A F T  W E E K E N D // May 2017

A showcase of contemporary crafts great and good at Copeland Gallery. 

Athens Quilt I + II - Quilted Textiles by Rachael Pilston

Still Life including work by Caitlin Hinshelwood, Freya Bramble-Carter, Laura Bird, Helena Lacey, Cristabel Balfour and Frame and Cover. 

Rest and Be Thankful dress by Lydia Morrow.

Curated by Gracie Divall. 

Peckham Craft Weekend by Chloe Phelps and Rachael Pilston.

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Brilliant ‘Painting with Patchwork’ workshop I held as a part of Peckham Craft Weekend. Made some beautiful pictorial patchworks, had some very interesting chats and met a lovely group of ladies

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Summer Science Fair at the Royal Society. Knitting blood vessels to populate our hand sewn lungs!!!

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My favourite Christmas commission - Hand dyed navy and pink up cycled linens with vintage Liberty’s silk from the 1960s (the bright poppy red!).

Wrapped and ready to go with individual water colour labelling and dating the textiles origins.

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Completed and quilted Athens patchworks, hanging next to the blossoming quince plant. Each piece is hand sewn, in recycled and hand dyed linens and cottons. (Hand dyed in my tiny little dye garden in Kolonaki, Athens.) For sale in This Way Up, Stroud. Similar pieces are available in commission.

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Patchwork, hand dyed and sewn in Exarcheia, Athens. Part of a recent project, made in Athens.

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Last years collaboration with Imperial College. ‘MicroBiome Home’ -an interative installation inspired by the fact that our lungs are home to an entire microbial ecosystem living in the nooks are crannies of our airways!

The audience populated the Microbiome Home by each designing and printing a unique microbial species.

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A recent commission, hand dyed and sewn in cottons and linens, completed to be given as a wedding gift!!! 

Navy, highlighter orange and lilac!

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Talking with my patchwork on my lap at Conversas. ‘My breasts are coming between us’ a chat about sewing, socialism and feminism.

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‘My breasts are coming between us’. 

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Tonight! 

My breasts are coming between us - a very anecdotal talk about my work and textiles/feminism.

Followed by Nick Wrack, the brilliant speaker and socialist candidate. 

Looking forward to it. 

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‘VOTE’ a patchwork to encourage women to vote in an election where politicians think that the way to engage women is to 'sit down for a chat around the kitchen table’ or to ride a pink bus!!

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‘Fernweh’- a group show at our studio in Bussey Building.

Was great to give friends and neighbours et al a glimpse of what we had been working on at the end of last month. 

There were patchworks, wine, bananas and dancing.