Emily Forbes
Artist & Community Artist.
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Please take a look at some of the projects and art workshops I have run as well as my own artworks documentary film and photographs.
To see a list of workshops I can offer please click here. To make an enquiry please see the 'contact' page.
Translating Home
A project investigating the abstract notion of 'home'. Working with the culturally diverse community in Pendle to explore belonging and identity. Exhibited at the Pendle Heritage Centre in May 2023.
Roses & Castles: A Line Made By Walking
A series of workshops exploring local heritage, flora and fauna along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. Our final collective murals can be seen in Pendle.
Threads of Migration
A zine booklet for Refugee Week 2023 weaving together stories of migration with expressive embroidery works.
Children's art workshops
A selection of children's workshops I've delivered on behalf of Community Arts by ZK.
Common Threads
Collaborative textile pieces displayed at Blackburn Cathedral for the British Textile Biennial October 2023.
I helped teach these textile workshops and contributed to the final pieces.
The Great Dorset Steam Fair
Documentary film and photographs from the largest Steam Fair in the world. It is an iconic annual event which began in 1969.
The apple does not fall far from the tree, April 2023.
A multimedia textile piece (including photography and ceramics) I created for the 'Translating Home' exhibition at the Pendle Heritage Centre 2023.
Workshops & more.
A fuller list of workshops, classes and community projects I can run - open for bookings!
Forensic Arcitecture exhibition review
Click here to read my review of the Forensic Architecture’s exhibition, ‘Cloud Studies’ looking at the work of the scholar Rob Nixon and his concept of ‘slow violence’.