To celebrate the launch of Poppy Nash’s SEE / AND KNOW / BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION, textile artist and craft expert Clare Hunter will be in conversation withwriter and co-founder of Decorating Dissidence Lottie Whalen. Clare and Lottie will discuss the secret life of textiles, exploring the ways that textile art has been used as a tool of protest and delving deeper into the stories of ‘disobedient textiles’ that inspire Poppy’s work, including Lorina Bulwer, Agnes Richter, and Marie Leib.

Join us from 6:15pm to view the exhibition, handle textiles, and have a go at stitching your own fabric square. The conversation will take place between 7-8pm, with an opportunity for audience questions. Book via Eventbrite here.

Clare Hunter has been a banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator for over twenty years and established the community enterprise NeedleWorks in Glasgow. Her first book, Threads of Life, won the Saltire First Book Award, was a Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month and a Radio 4 Book of the Week. She published her most recent book Making Matters: in Search of Creative Wonders this year.

Lottie Whalen is a writer, researcher, and co-founder of Decorating Dissidence, a research project that explores radical histories of craft and the legacies of those histories in the work of contemporary makers. Her book Radicals and Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern came out in 2023 and she is currently working on a project about artist friendship.