Patch by Alice and Unrecorded Maker(s) - Patches - Patchwork Object

Creator

Alice

Unrecorded Maker(s)

Story

This patch was made during the "Patchwork and Creativity Workshop", held in Cambridge, UK on 19 and 20 September, 2024.

This two-day workshop used the theme of “Patchwork and Creativity” to prompt conversations about modes of being and knowing that emphasise the collaborative, the collective, the non-linear, and the potentially deconstructive or resistant forms of creativity that have not historically been privileged by Western art histories.

During this workshop, participants were invited to co-create patches with one another. Participants were given access to pre-cut material and art supplies and a brief introduction to the Patchwork Object Project. They were then invited to mark the patch in any way that they felt inspired to. At three points during the workshop, participants swapped patches and continued working on patches worked on by others. Afterwards, participants were invited to identify which patches they contributed to; some participants chose to do this, some participants chose to remain an 'unrecorded maker'.

We chose to use the term ‘unrecorded maker’, rather than the more common ‘anonymous’ or ‘maker unknown’ following discussion during the workshop around the fact that many women’s contributions to art and craft work, particularly work that was collaboratively made, was not unknown in its time, just not acknowledged or recorded by history.

Rights Holder

Alice

Unrecorded Maker(s)

Rights