On Wednesday 29th April (Session 1) and 6th May (Session 2), students took part in a creative sewing workshop in Art and Design studies.
They completed a sewing project in Textiles with exhibited artist Dr Emily Lucas.
Emily Lucas lives and works in Stroud, Gloucestershire. She is a former primary school teacher, practicing artist and exhibitionist in numerous galleries and museums. She has undertaken a PhD, researching the function of drawing as an emotional, autobiographical, artistic tool.
Drawing, stitch and print lie at the heart of Emily’s practice. She is interested in the inadequacy of language to communicate thought process and interior experience, utilising gaps, fragments and strange pairings to create alternative narratives and opposing and conflicting meanings. Her work is truly layered with deeper meaning associations that connects the viewers and artist with these themes.
Our students explored her work in these workshops and better understood how to communicate with audiences with their art.
KS3 students met Emily and viewed her artworks in person. She presented to them some of her artworks that varied from drawings on Japanese paper to gentle little handsewn houses. They used the blanket stitch they have been learning to sew, to attach the seams of their own tiny houses and create delicate pieces of stitch work and personality using old photographs, envelopes and other papers such as maps. They exhibited use of recycling materials and sustainability in the artists style that will create a collection of artworks by our students.
Thank you to Emily for accepting our invitation and coming in to work with our students.
Posted: 06/05/2026
