#fleur oakes

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Performing Medicine | Wellcome Collection

Join a team of surgeons and craftspeople to explore the common skills they use in their professions.

Professor Kneebone and other Art Workers’Guild members will be working with young students to explore how the arts help surgical skills at the Wellcome Collection Saturday Studio, November 17th. Please read the link for full information.

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‘COME BUY’ by Fleur Oakes , an embroidered copy of the Financial Times. More here....at The Glass Pingle and here at Faery Fellers.....

“The sickening printed greed which I could only exorcise by inking it out, the underlying insidious message, come buy, the value of paper, it's fragility and power, the slow process of embroidery, the even slower process of embroidering paper, quick versus slow, making ink bear fruit, the real face of the goblin world hiding in plain sight, bad fruit, weird fruit, consumption of ink words, eating money, money as toilet paper, humans as commodities, trade, rough trade, the tree on the front of the paper as a goblin joke, champagne as a headline and a decimal point, luxury goods and oil, the milking of culture, the whip of capitalism, my needle, stitch magic, intention.” Fleur Oakes. .

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Embroidery and surgery

The latest article about my work as artist in residence with Imperial College London’s vascular surgery department.

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BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Olivia Colman, Luther, Surgery and embroidery

Olivia Colman on her new film The Favourite, and Luther reviewed

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Stumpwork poppy head made by Fleur Oakes

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Needlelace cuffs , made by Fleur Oakes for the High Sheriff of Cumbria, in 2013.

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Stumpwork ‘house in the forest’, approx.5cm high by Fleur Oakes

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‘taken during the making of the piece The Ghosts of Winter by Fleur Oakes. Beaded dandelion clocks and a needle lace fox.