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Allie Kay's residency at Knockalisheen >>

Textile arts are particularly appropriate when working with people [usually women] who, by their own assessment, have limited experience of creative activity and yet often have experience of sewing. As well as being accessible, this has the potential to be a very sociable and even political art form, as evidenced by the AIDS quilts projects all over the world. Allie Kay is a full time professional fibre artist and teacher. She has had wide, practical experience of working with a range of mediums and techniques including fibre, paper, plastic, felt, fabric printing and dyeing, fabric collage and manipulation, weaving and spinning. She has worked herself and with groups on 2 & 3 dimensional pieces.