liz O Connell Glass North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Artist with contemporary glass and craft practice based in North Yorkshire , completed an MA in Glass and Ceramics in Sunderland University developing torch skills and kiln forming glass threads Creating woven glass pieces and referring to women's relationships to textiles and Emotional Fabric exploring heritage through site specific research.
Liz O Connell is an emerging artist with Irish and Yorkshire heritage , through her research into her family’s links with textiles she creates glass fabrics and bobbins to explore the stories we weave.
Liz explores narratives about invisible labour and our connections to textiles and heritage.
As well as sculptural pieces she reappropriates weaving analogies and talks us through the stories we weave and our hidden connections and emotional selves.
I want us look at textile heritage and the psychological impact of constant giving and invisible work ..using delicate glass threads and bobbins to capture some of the emotions such as being “ threadbare” and “ losing ones thread” and to draw on and explore textile analogies and processes.
Artwork
Pink Confidence 2024, Glass threads, 2024
Invisible Threads , Glass Bobbin and Glass Threads, 2023
Invisible Weaving , Woven Glass Threads, 2020
High Conflict 2023, Woven Glass Threads Kiln formed, 2023
Projects and exhibitions
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Weaving Voices - Threads Textile Festival07/06/2024 — 09/06/2024 POP UP Exhibition in the Archive Of Sunny Bank Mills to show some of the artists and makers influenced by the Mill and Archive , Part of the Threads Festival , Talks and markets in the 1912 Building. |
Archive Exhibition Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds | Details |
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North Yorkshire Open Studios01/06/2024 — 03/11/2024 An Open Studios event with 170 artists in North Yorkshire approx artists showing collections of their work and process in their own studios and turning their homes in to Galleries for visitors. |
North Yorkshire | Details |
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OPO Open 202410/02/2024 — 12/03/2024 OPO OPEN Exhibition 2024 10th February- 12th March The OPO Open, the annual open exhibition organised by the Old Parcels Office Artspace opens on Saturday 10th February Now in its third year the OPO ‘Open Call’ attracted over 400 entries from artists across the UK, with a large number of entries coming from the northern region. Works by... [Read more] |
Old Parcels Office, Scarborough | Details |
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Old Parcel Office Open 202410/02/2024 — 10/03/2024 OPO OPEN Exhibition 2024 10th February- 12th March The OPO Open, the annual open exhibition organised by the Old Parcels Office Artspace opens on Saturday 10th February Now in its third year the OPO ‘Open Call’ attracted over 400 entries from artists across the UK, with a large number of entries coming from the northern region. Works by... [Read more] |
Old Parcels Office, Scarborough | Details |
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Weaving Voices Talk02/12/2023 — 02/12/0023 Artists Talk given as part of the ' Weaving Voices' artists talk programme which are inspired talks from the collection at Sunny Bank Mills. These talks are a companion to the Woven Stories Exhibition which celebrates 10 years of Art and Culture at the Mills. |
Sunny Bank Mills Farsley, Leeds | Details |
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Woven Stories a celebration of Arts and Culture30/09/2023 — 29/02/2024 Woven Stories is an exhibition celebrating 10 years of Art and Culture at Sunny Bank Mills, featuring the work over over 30 local artists with strong connections to the Mills’ creative life. |
Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds | Details |
York Open Studios10/07/2021 — 18/07/2021 Contemporary Open Studios for York Artists and Craft Makers |
York, York | Details |