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A 14-year, award winning global, collaborative embroidery project2009 to 2023. The Red Dress project, conceived by British artist Kirstie Macleod, provides an artistic platform for individuals (majority women) around the world, many of whom are vulnerable and live in poverty, to tell their story through embroidery.
A 14 year long, award winning global collaborative embroidery project 2009-2023. Could you also make the image the one attached (of Kazia from Jamaica)
A 14 year long, award winning global collaborative embroidery project 2009-2023. Could you also make the image the one attached (of Kazia from Jamaica)
KIRSTIE MACLEOD. Artist Kirstie Macleod created the Red Dress project in 2009, and has stitched many embroideries along the years, often as a visual diary to mark key events: Geometric Disintegration 2010 - ongoing. Begining as a geomteric design, over the years Kirstie began to break and disperse the motif into the Red Dress.
The Red Dress is in some respects similar to Mail Art, the populist artistic movement centred on sending small scale works through the postal service. It initially developed out of the Fluxus movement in the 1950s and 60s – but on a larger scale – the journey of the work is part of its identity, process, and in fact function.
The Red Dress is a large silk dress covered in ornate embroidery created in 50 different countries around the world. 374 artisans have stitched onto the dress over the last 13 years. 365 women / girls, 7 men / boys and 2 non-binary individuals.
Nicole Esselan, Founder of Kisany Africa, supporting artisans in DR CONGO and RWANDA who created embroidery on the Red Dress in 2018. This is both an extraordinary work of collective art and profound and eloquent social commentary. It is also an example of how potent the Attire language is capable of becoming.
ABERGAVENNY, WALES, 2024. The Red Art Project is a collaboration between three women; Liz Davis, Carol Kay & Mary Wrenn, which looks at serious issues around women’s empowerment and seeks to creatively explore women’s many stories. For more info: theredartproject@gmail.com.
THE CREATOR OF THE RED DRESS project. Kirstie has worked as an artist for 20 years, and on the Red Dress for the last 15. What began as a sketch on the back of a napkin in 2009, has grown into a global collaborative project involving hundreds of people all over the world.
Embroidery Circle with women supported by the Swansea Women’s Asylum and Refugee Support group. Wales | MARCH 2022. After 13 years of creation the last motifs of embroidery were added by 13 women supported by the Swansea Women’s Asylum Refugee Support Group (‘The Women’s Group’ https://www.scvs.org.uk/swansea-womens-asylum-refugee ...