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A creative and beautiful book packed with inspiring ideas to help
you capture likenesses and explore personalities in stitch, from a
well-loved textile artist. Anne Kelly's evocative and nostalgic
work often incorporates portraits – of friends, family,
historical figures and even pets. Within these pages she shares her
approach to textile portraiture, bringing in a wealth of different
embroidery techniques, including hand and machine embroidery,
quilting and appliqué, to render in cloth the nuances of facial
expressions and the personalities of her subjects. The book covers:
• Selfies at Home: making the perfect self-portrait in cloth. •
Representation and Culture: how portraits have been used in textile
art for cultural expression around the world. • Stylised Imagery:
going beyond the traditional portrait into abstraction. • Place
and Time: creating a sense of place with portraiture, sometimes
incorporating photographs. • Story and Text: how to create a
fuller narrative by deeply personal ephemera and related imagery.
• Pet Projects: immortalising your pets in your textile work.
Beautifully illustrated with stunning examples of her own work and
that of intriguing textile artists who specialise in portraiture
from around the world, this is the ideal book for embroiderers and
textile artists who want to introduce this often tricky subject
area into their work.
What is the value of medical research? With contributions from
anthropologists, sociologists and activists, this approach brings
into focus the forms of value - social, epistemic, and economic -
that are involved in medical research practices and how these
values intersect with everyday living. Though their work covers
wide empirical ground -from HIV trials in Kenya and drug donation
programs in Tanzania to industry-academic collaborations in the
British National Health Service - the authors share a commitment to
understanding the practices of medical research as embedded in both
local social worlds and global markets. Their collective concern is
to rethink the conventional ethical demarcations betwweenpaid and
unpaid research services in light of the social and material
organisation of medical research practices. . Rather than warn
against economic incursions into medical knowledge and health
practice, or, alternatively, the reduction of local experience to
the standards of bioethics, we hope to illuminate the array of
practices, knowledges, and techniques through which the value of
medical research is brought into being. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Journal of Cultural Economy.
What is the value of medical research? With contributions from
anthropologists, sociologists and activists, this approach brings
into focus the forms of value - social, epistemic, and economic -
that are involved in medical research practices and how these
values intersect with everyday living. Though their work covers
wide empirical ground -from HIV trials in Kenya and drug donation
programs in Tanzania to industry-academic collaborations in the
British National Health Service - the authors share a commitment to
understanding the practices of medical research as embedded in both
local social worlds and global markets. Their collective concern is
to rethink the conventional ethical demarcations betwweenpaid and
unpaid research services in light of the social and material
organisation of medical research practices. . Rather than warn
against economic incursions into medical knowledge and health
practice, or, alternatively, the reduction of local experience to
the standards of bioethics, we hope to illuminate the array of
practices, knowledges, and techniques through which the value of
medical research is brought into being. This book was originally
published as a special issue of Journal of Cultural Economy.
This book invites the interaction of the whole class in the process
of creating mystery plays.
An evocative exploration of how travel - local and far away - can
inform, inspire and enhance textile art. Travel has always featured
heavily in textile art, from artists’ ‘travelling
sketchbooks’ to large-scale installations mapping coastal erosion
or the effects of climate change. In this book, renowned textile
artist Anne Kelly shows how to capture your travels, past and
present, in stitch, with practical techniques sitting alongside
inspiring images. She begins the book by discussing maps in textile
art, including their iconography as well as incorporating actual
maps into textile work. She then goes on to explore the influence
of different cultures from across the globe on textile art. From
India and Peru to Scotland and Scandinavia, the book shows how to
harness traditional techniques, fabrics, motifs and colours for use
in your own work. The chapter ‘Stopping Places’ captures the
moments in time on a journey that can be distilled, remembered and
documented to create stitched postcards, sketchbooks and other
pieces. The final chapter, ‘Space and the Imagination’,
explores the possibilities of space travel as a source of
inspiration, and covers inner space too, with artists mapping their
own emotional journeys. Including a wealth of practical tricks and
techniques as well as exquisite photography of both Anne’s own
work and that of other leading textile artists, this fascinating
book will inspire all textile artists, embroiderers and makers to
use past travels to influence their work.
A resource book with over seventy games and lists for using
improvisation games to teach drama skills. Classroom tested and
proven to be intellectually stimulating and creatively successful.
Ready, Set, Golf An Essential Guide for Young Golfers was written
with the help of many young golfers, parents, and golf
professionals and contains excellent information for a young
golfer. Ready, Set, Golf is for the 8 - 14 year old boys and girls
who are beginning golf. Illustrated and easy to read, it covers the
basis of the game, including equipment, clothing, lessons,
practice, competition and simplified rules. Sprinkled throughout is
interesting golf trivia. The book will give young golfers the
answers to many of their questions concerning the game of golf. As
well, it emphasises the life skills that will be learned through
golf.
An inspirational guide to using nature in textile art, with
step-by-step projectsPlants, flowers, gardens, insects and birds
are a rich source of inspiration for artists and designers of all
kinds. This beautiful guide demonstrates how to get the most out of
your surroundings to create original and unique pieces in
textiles.Beginning with a chapter on drawing from nature, the book
demonstrates how to use sketchbooks and create mood boards to
explore your local environment and landscape. The author
demonstrates how to make small pieces such as folding books based
on observational drawing and stitch. Moving on to a section on
floral inspiration, the author shows how to use plants and flowers
in your work, from using stencilled flower motifs as embellishment
to printing with plants onto fabric and making simple relief
prints. Finally, the taking flight chapter demonstrates how to move
into three-dimensions and sculptural work with birds and insects
made from cloth.Featuring step-by-step projects as well as work
from contemporary artists, makers and collaborative groups
throughout, this practical and beautiful guide shows how
practitioners of all kinds can draw from the natural world for
making and inspiration.
Bringing immigrants onstage as central players in the drama of
rural
capitalist transformation, Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of
Welsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio.
After
reconstructing the gradual process of community-building, Knowles
focuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved
with
the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors
in
Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. Setting the southern Ohio
Welsh in
the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850,
Knowles
explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral
dilemmas
posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic
success in
the United States.
Knowles draws on a wide variety of sources, including obituaries
and
community histories, to reconstruct the personal histories of over
1,700
immigrants. The resulting account will find appreciative readers
not
only among historical geographers, but also among American economic
historians and historians of religion.
The devastation of disease, the pace of death and fears of
contagion not only altered the practices of mourning and burial
during the calamitous height of the Famine, but have also shaped
its visual representation and ongoing patterns of
remembrance.Paintings and illustrations reflect on aspects of
pre-famine conventions around death, burial and mourning, which
drew on a culturally rich and complex range of Christian and Celtic
pagan traditions. Later, famine-era images and objects reveal some
of the distressing modifications to mortuary and funerary practices
during the famine years. Since then, photographic archives, art
works, monuments, memorial parks, cemeteries and unmarked burial
grounds provide spaces for remembrance across the landscape of
Ireland where visitor engagement is informed by competing forces of
historical and touristic practices. This folio encompasses a
cross-section of representational forms and strategies of
remembrance of the Famine dead who were, to borrow Giorgio
Agamben's term, the "ultimate witnesses" to that tragic period.
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes
Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and
researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of
the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852 - the worst demographic
catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are
interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in
Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history,
art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political
economy, literature and music.
Little Voice is a chapter book written for children 9-14 years old.
Readers, young and old will be intrigued by this story's timeless
message about one of the most basic human emotions, "Fear." This
adventurous tale explores the journey of an impulsive young boy,
Anthony, who allows fear to control his destiny. As the story
unfolds, Anthony finds himself captive in a cold dark place by a
mysterious stranger. He grapples with his fear and faces the
rawness of the emotion as he tries to escape the enemy with the
help of a few friends that he meets along the way. Secrets unravel
and a deeper mystery unfolds as Anthony learns to trust in divine
intervention. Guided by his Little Voice, he learns about strength
and courage and follows the path of truth.
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Rabbit in the Road (Paperback)
Oliver Campbell; Edited by Ryvenna Lewis; Illustrated by Katie Anne Kelly
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R349
Discovery Miles 3 490
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In 1966, there is a record store clerk who loves her life just the
way it is. One night on a train, she meets her soul mate, the man
who is the key to unlocking her latent ESP, something she never
thought possible. She will spend the next 14 years of her life
trying to get away from him by any means necessary. The debut
novella of writing team Danika D Potts and Oliver Campbell, Rabbit
in the Road is a suspenseful, shocking thriller about just how far
one will go in order to preserve their way of life, and is sure to
captivate and keep you reeling.
The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art
exhibitions, news reports, monuments and heritage landscapes has
framed the harrowing images we currently associate with
dispossession. People across the world are driven out of their
homes and countries on a wave of conflict, poverty and famine, and
our main sites for engaging with their loss are visual news and
social media. In a reappraisal of the viewer's role in
representations of displacement, Niamh Ann Kelly examines a wide
range of commemorative visual culture from the
mid-nineteenth-century Great Irish Famine. Her analysis of memorial
images, objects and locations from that period until the early 21st
century shows how artefacts of historical trauma can affect
understandings of enforced migrations as an ongoing form of
political violence. This book will be of interest to students and
researchers of museum and heritage studies, material culture, Irish
history and contemporary visual cultures exploring dispossession.
A practical and inspirational guide to textile folk art from
cultures all around the world, accompanied by step-by-step
projects. From samplers and quilts in Europe, to tribal and nomadic
cloth further afield in Mongolia and China, folk and traditional
designs have played a crucial part in the development of textile
art and craft. In this book, Anne Kelly explores the traditional
motifs used in textile folk art and shows you how contemporary
textile artists use these in their work today. The beautifully
illustrated guide is also packed with helpful step-by-step projects
that demonstrate how to apply folk motifs to your own work. Drawing
inspiration from the Far East to Scandinavia, artists and designers
have often used folk art to influence their work. Beginning with
the chapter 'Samplers in Stitch', Anne looks into handmade
momentoes and souvenirs created in the UK and USA. Samplers as
statement pieces are also explored and are contextualised within
the role of women and children recording their personal histories
and lives. 'Nordic Notes' then looks at Scandinavian traditional
textile art, and how modern screen printing and embroidery have
been used by contemporary makers. 'Silk Road' looks at the
influence of nomadic cultures and textiles, including yurts in
Mongolia and Miao folklore in China. Projects on how to make felt,
pouched and jewellery are also covered. Lastly, 'Trees of Life'
looks the motif of the tree in a variety of cultures. Anne also
looks at traditional techniques from South Asia and how to create
your own 'Family Tree' using photo transfers and applique.
Featuring step-by-step projects as well as work from contemporary
artists and makers throughout, this practical and beautiful guide
shows how practitioners of all kinds can draw from folk art for
making and inspiration.
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