Glove Box
14 x 43 x 14 cms. Wood, leather, digital print, and wire with paper pulp.
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Sarah has taught Art, Design and Textiles at The Sheffield College since 1987 on Access to HE, 18+ Foundation, City & Guilds and H.N.D. Courses.

She is also a freelance lecturer and tutor, specialising in design workshops and an experimental approach to re-evaluating traditional techniques.

Since 2000 she has been tutor to Mainly Stitch, a workshop and exhibiting group in the Derbyshire Peak District.

During 2002 and 2004 she lectured at the Victoria and Albert Museum's Art of the Stitch Study Days.

Sarah has been a contributor to various books published in both USA and Britain.

In 2003 Sarah co-curated the PSG exhibition Material Works off the Wall at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum. This exhibition incorporated exhibits from the Museum of Iron into the group's three dimensional textile work and led Sarah to a major interest in working with Museums.

Over the last couple of years Sarah's exhibition work has explored gloves and working hands. Sarah worked with the glove collection at the Bankfield Museum in Halifax for the PSG's exhibition Not What it Seams that toured during 2004 and culminated in a final exhibition at the Bankfield Museum during the summer of 2005.

Sarah is continuing to work with gloves for an Arts Council funded solo exhibition at the Central Art Gallery in Ashton under Lyne, Tameside. This exhibition, G'Love Stories, develops ideas from the historic glove making industry that flourished in Hyde. Sarah has worked with older glove makers from the area and incorporates their stories as well as artefacts from the glove industry into her work.

Sarah combines mixed media with her textiles and uses a limited range of materials, often strongly contrasting in weight and character. She frequently works with open structured materials, withdrawing and manipulating threads, enjoying the perception of fragility and currently contrasting with leather and organdie. Colour is used symbolically to reinforce ideas.

Sarah enjoys working with architects and clients on challenging commissions and has completed a number of ecclesiastical and domestic commissions.

An exciting development of Sarah's commission work has been the opportunity to design for stained glass, with windows for two Derbyshire churches now installed.

Glove Drawer 2, Withdrawn
44 x 107 x 3 cms. Perspex, linen, drawn thread and organdie.
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Sarah Burgess