PILLOWTALK
Pillowtalk. Photo by Timo Kerber. Model Aweng Chuoi.
The call-out to Artists:
This is an invitation to embrace your natural slutness, and rest. Leave the constant slog, the pointless endless cleaning, grab a pillowcase/cushion cover, and grab a pillow case or cushion cover and stitch your thoughts on REST…..Nap, doze, siesta, catnap, snooze, kip, slumber, forty winks, shut-eye. Are you getting enough? If you are menopause, of course you bloody aren’t…
PILLOWTALK is an OPEN CALL for everyone everywhere to join in. The call-out has already begun as the first group of REST-themed pillowcases are being created for POW Thanet. From here the project will expand and travel, giving contributors more of a chance to view the project in person.
Building from the tremendous success of our collaboration with the Domestic Dusters project last year, we wanted to give another opportunity for folk to be a part of PEG.
So have a nap, and then get stitching.
Curated by Profanity Embroidery Group
We are the Profanity Embroidery Group, and we do exactly as it says on the tin – we embroider profanities. Some people think we are besmirching the gentle art of needlecraft with our puerile potty mouths – we know this ‘cos they like to tell us so. Kathy Burke said we were like a Punk version of the WI, and we are rather proud of that description.
Based in Whitstable, Kent, we are a group of 30 sweary stitchers, we make regular exhibitions of ourselves.
insta @pegwhitstable / pegwhitstable.co.uk / twitter @broideryprofane
Submission deadline: Friday 12th April at 23h59 GMT
NB: as an opportunity external to FaB, works submitted before 31st January 2024 will be considered for Profanity Embroidery Group's annual exhibition around Whitstable in February 2024, and for 'Power Of Women Thanet' in Margate, March 2024.
FaB are excited to be supporting fellow art festivals, see external links for info: pegwhitstable.co.uk/exhibitions / powthanet.comMedia accepted: textiles.
Free submission. All are welcome to apply, of any age, status, and from anywhere in the world.
If selected, we ask Artists to give some of their time if you can, as we are all volunteers. Please read our FAQs here to find out more.
See all 20 projects open to submissions on our home page: fringeartsbath.co.uk
To submit your work: please email the Curator pillowtalk@fringeartsbath.co.uk including:
NB: please include the exhibition / project name in the email title.
max 200 words about your work and how it fits the call-out (written, audio file, video or another way to suit you).
some images of the work, or links to video / performance work (or existing work if it hasn’t been made yet).
any relevant links, if you have them (though it’s not a requirement and Curators might not have the capacity to visit them all).
of course please include any questions you have.
you might not hear back from Curators until after the deadline, thank you for your patience.
Fringe Arts Bath Festival will take place 24 May to 9 June 2024