(Source: silk-bones)

-The Twelve Wild Geese (Sister), Siobhan Rodgers 2008-2011 (Rushes, twine, bog-cotton, pins and ribbon.) Here pictured in Ps2 Belfast

Inspiration line for The Twelve Wild Geese, I don’t think I can stop until I’ve made each brother a jacket… hours of weaving, dancing circles barefoot, that summer smell of cut grass and rain, and it smells of freedom, life on the wing…  

Upcoming show…

This piece of work (pictured here in earlier shows) has been selected for a local mueasums exhibition of the best craft in the county in celebration of August Craft Month… More information to follow. It is my retelling of “The Twelve Wild Geese” an Irish version of a fairytale, and is woven from rushes, twine and bog-cotton.

 Thirteen Tales of Love, Death and the Weather

My Red Tales from this body of work (six pieces in all) are currently on exhibition in SpaceCraft (The Fountain Centre, Belfast) the other pieces from the collection will be exhibited throughout the art college in the following weeks… 

Setting up for the show in PS2…

It’s taken me two days to set up in the space, between painting the writing onto the the walls and pinning each rush individually… But it’s nearly there, red threads and red trails, red ribbons and red velvet, white snow, white bog-cotton and white linen and green as green as this land…

Rushes: 100+, Pins: the same, Hours to pin each rush individually to the wall: 6, A cup of tea: Priceless…