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Freddie Robins

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•About Freddie Robins

•Work

•Inspirations

•Involvement and awards

•Additional information

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About her

•Born 1965, in Hitchin, Hertfordshire

•Studied Constructed Textiles at Middlesex University•Studied for a MA in Constructed Textiles at Royal College of Art

•Had a daughter in 2004, effecting her working practice

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•9th September 2005 – 9th October 2005 the public were able to go into Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London SW11 4NJ and knit anything for the wedding.

•Married on 9th October 2005

Marriage

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Craft Kills

•A response to the airline ban on knitting needles in the post-9/11 era.

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Crimes of Omission:Knitted Homes of Crime

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Adorn Equip

•Explores issues of clothing design for disabled people

•Artists work with disabled people

•Freddie Robins worked with Catherine Long and Mat Fraser

•This exhibition inspired Freddie Robins to make her own miniature projects

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Odd Gloves

Hands of good, hands of god

{H}armless

Odd sweaters

Headcase

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Cosy

•First major solo exhibition

•Held at three different venues

•Showcase of most of her previous work

•Exhibition catalogue called ‘Cosy’

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Freddie’s Inspirations

•Patricia Roberts

•Godmother/Auntie Pam •Contemporary issues of a domestic, Gender and human condition.

• Subverts preconceptions and disrupts the notion of the median being passive and benign.

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Involvements and Awards•Knit 2 Together•Joint commission with Mary Little for Sydney Levinson

•Finalist on Jerwood applied arts prize 2002 – pink cover all jumpsuit

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Cast Off

•Established in 2000

•Anyone can attend

•Meetings are held in different locations each time

“Cast Off believes that knitting can be good for

all”

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How she was received

•“hideous”

•“wonderfully strange”

•“… is not everyone’s cup of tea”

 Smith, B. (2004) ‘Never Never Land’ Selvedge, vol. 05.

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Body, Nobody, Somebody (solo exhibition)West Norway Museum of Decorative ArtBergen, Norway3 November 2007 - 13 January 2008

Cloth and Culture Now Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (SCVA)Norwich, Suffolk29 January - 1 June 2008 --Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester September - December 2008 --Touring to Latvia and Japan in 2009

Radical Lace & Subversive KnittingIndiana State MuseumIndianapolis, USA25 April - 24 August 2008

Forthcoming Events

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