Standing In This Place – Rachel Carter

Rachel Carter – Sculptor Rachel Carter works from her studio on the Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire border, creating large scale sculpture for the garden and smaller intimate sculptures for the home using the lost wax technique to create bronze works. Since graduating with a BA Hons in Applied Arts, she has found herself driven by process and material in sculpture. Repetition and hand processes such as weaving, knotting & tying features heavily in her work creating intricate surface patterns.

Many of her commissions are underpinned by a love of history and ancestry, and feels honoured to be able to represent our shared and complex histories within sculpture. Looking at her own ancestry often provides inspiration for new work as she adds to the long legacy of weavers, knotters and makers that stretch back over 350 years of the Midlands industrial past.

Workshop – Rachel will be bringing to the project to the Art Core ‘Knit and Knitter’ drop in sessions in the Art Core cafe where the public will be invited to enjoy a cuppa whilst embellishing calico framed in embroidery hoops with the names of historic women connected to the story of cotton. You will be invited to use embroidery and stitching techniques to stitch and Speak Her name on the cotton fabric. Rachel will be bringing along dozens of hand woven braids made by women from across the Midlands that you can use in your work.