Sample, 2003

"Sample" The Embroiderers' Guild

August 2003 -May 2004

Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead

Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands

Hall Place, Bexley

The work for this touring exhibition comprised a number of nineteenth century child-made samplers which were altered by unpicking parts of the original text and images and replacing them with my own. The texts of sentimental received truths were replaced with new texts reflecting adult and parental fears and doubts at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Responses to the work, alongside its potential for exploring concepts such as violation, dialogue across time, the continuous process of art as a conversation, led me to continue working in the medium. Further exhibitions of this kind of work included 'Home' at Contemporary Applied Art 2015, Subversive Design' at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery 2013, 'Art in Romney Marsh' 2012, 'Unravelling Nymans' 2012.


				Julian Walker Interventionist embroidery



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