Category: Sarah Boardman
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The Dominoes are Born by Sarah Boardman
Sarah Boardman explains how she notices and captures images of small pairings such as lichen and fungi, a dew drop on moss on a spring walk. She then discusses how this led to memories of family games and the development of her playful dominoes.
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Festival of Quilts 2026
Sarah Boardman, Mary McIntosh and Nicola Whayman will all be taking part in the Festival of Quilts at the NEC in Birmingham 30th July – 2nd August 2026.
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Creative Stitch Graduate Show 2026
The Creative Stitch Graduate show will be exhibiting work at Needham Market Community Centre on 18th and 19th July 2026 and will include work by the current graduates alongside several other alumni groups including Out of The Fold. Their collaborative work ‘Material Dialogues’ will be shown at this show.
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The Ties That Bind
Sarah and Bev discuss the mutual life experiences they have shared and their interpretation of these into their collaboration piece. This will be shown in our exhibition at St Margaret’s Gallery, Norwich 23rd September – 4th October 2026.
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Textile Discovery day
Sarah Boardman, Mary McIntosh and Nicola Whayman are demonstrating different techniques at a free event “Textile Discovery Day” in Ipswich on 26th May.
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Material Dialogues by Mary McIntosh
We are preparing for our next exhibition in 2026 with the theme ‘Material Dialogues’. What materials will inspire us?
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Finding Your Spark; the world needs it. by Sarah Boardman
Sarah Boardman talks about the struggle to find her own textile identity, the route to find her unique voice, with tips for others experiencing a similar unknown adventure!
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Knowing your Space by Mary McIntosh
Exhibition of work ‘Reflections’ at The Minories in Colchester with ArtContex
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Finding Tranquility by Sarah Boardman
Sarah describes the thought processes behind her textile pieces as a reflection of internal feelings. These will be exhibited at The Guildhall in Bury in September and with ArtContex at The Minories in October,