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Close Up of Refuge: Ropner's Ghost Ship. Preston Park Museum 2017. Dixon and Welsh

on February 02, 2018

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This was a site-specific textile sculpture Refuge: Ropner’s Ghost Ship , an Arts and Heritage commission made in response to the Preston Park Museum collections. Refuge took the ethereal form of a merchant ship, dramatically lit from within, to evoke Teesside’s maritime history and, specifically, the shipbuilding legacy of the Museum’s former owner, Robert Ropner. The work combined Welsh’s use of textiles to evoke resonances of time, place and memory ( Another Peace , 2012) with Dixon’s use of the ship-form as a metaphoric vessel of narrative ( Monopoly , 2009). The work highlighted the historic narrative of Robert Ropner (an ‘economic migrant’ who travelled from Germany as a teenage orphan and subsequently became a key figure in Teesside’s shipping and ship-building industries) as a method of questioning contemporary attitudes to immigration and the ‘value’ of migrants, as revealed by the Brexit vote to leave the EU. The multiple textile banners t...

Two fashion designers Alison Welsh and Jasper Chadprajong from the Manchester Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University undertook a creative residency in Thailand in November 2017 as part of the Crafting Futures programme. They were based in Nan Province, which is on the eastern border of northern Thailand. Welsh and Chadprajong were working in conjunction with women weavers from the Silalang sub-district near Pua. This is an area with inherent natural beauty surrounded by forested mountains and extensive rice fields. It is the forests that provide the communities with the source materials for their natural dyes. They work in tandem with the land and the forests, maintaining a respect for the environments and the eco-culture. The methods and processes of dyeing and weaving have been passed down through the generations, and this ancestral wisdom is valued and celebrated. Their weaving looms, like their traditional homes, are made by highly skilled craftsmen from local tim...

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Close Up of Refuge: Ropner's Ghost Ship. Preston Park Museum 2017. Dixon and Welsh

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