Soizig Carey, Peaton Hill Cove, Helensburgh (2026)

15/03/2026

Honoured to have written the foreword for this beautiful publication by Matilda Dominique, released last month in Stockholm. Love holding this in my hands! 📖

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙇𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 is an artistic research project by artist and weaver Matilda Dominique. The project centres on an in-depth exploration of the waffle weave technique, approached as a sculptural, spatial, and historically layered structure. Through systematic experiments with wool, dyeing and post-weaving treatments she investigates how material, scale, and process shape the three-dimensional potential of the weave. In the exhibition at Konst-ig she will show new works together with earlier pieces documented in the book.

The publication gathers texts, images, notes, and sketches that situate the project within broader historical and cultural narratives and includes contributions from art writers, designers, archivists, and artists whose perspectives expand the context of Dominique’s sustained investigation into woven structure as both material practice and cultural artifact.

The book was initially published in Swedish in 2020 and has now been reworked and translated to English.

Texts by Soizig Carey, , Johanna Theander, Linda Wiktorén och Marcia Harvery Isaksson

Photos by Elin Sylwan
Translation by Arianna Funk
Graphic design by Emilie Mottet

10/12/2025

Time to edit as the year runs out.... Having a sample sale from the Estética collection in person this weekend at Glasgow Artists Sell Stuff. Please come visit!

I'm making room for the new, and once these pieces are gone, they're gone! Selling first collection samples at reduced prices. Look out for more in my stories this week 🕊️

Glasgow Artists Sell Stuff organised by craft masters
Saturday 13 December 2 - 8pm
Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church Hall, Salton Street

30 artists, designers and makers together in one church hall selling their stuff for you to buy. Live performances and café with proceeds going to 🫒

03/08/2025

Past and present studies, in good hands 🐚

Una’s shell, daylight at the Forum baths in Pompei, La Résistance des Bijoux (Contres les géographies coloniales) Ariella Aisha Azoulay , From the River to the Sea Palestine will be Free 🇵🇸, line vocabulary Arild Vange

26/10/2024

It's the last day to visit ‘If only we had the space’ 🏠

Including selected records from Castlemilk Womanhouse, held at Glasgow Women's Library 📚

The Womanhouse project began as a collaborative artwork to address historical and contemporary notions of women’s creativity, within and outside the home. Women artists from all over Britain worked alongside women and children from Castlemilk. During the summer of 1990, four flats in an empty tenement block became a huge living artwork and a
meeting place for women and children in the neighbourhood.

Huge gratitude to Glasgow Women's Library for their care, knowledge, support and all the immense work that they do in preserving women's history 🙏🏼 It has been a joy delving through the archives, and what we have included is a tiny tiny representation of Glasgow's housing movements and activism.

Image 1 Woman in Stairwell
Image 2 'Jobs for the Girls', Rachael Harris
Image 3 Castlemilk Womanhouse Exterior View, Claire Barclay
Image 4 Installing 'A Room of My Own', Annie Lovejoy
Image 5 Installing 'A Room of My Own', Annie Lovejoy
Image 6 Woman Painting in Hallway
Image 7 Castlemilk Womanhouse Booklet

‘If only we had the space’ is curated by Rachel Ashenden, Soizig Carey, Jemima Dansey-Wright and Murray Morrant. The exhibition will run until 5pm today 🕥

Delivered in association with Craft Scotland, as part of COMPASS: Emerging Curator Programme, and Katy West, Programme Lead.

22/10/2024

Still super heartened from the very intergenerational launch of ‘If only we had the space’ on Saturday at 🏠

Expertly led colour and pattern workshops by , and inspiring conversation with .patrick and on the importance of craft and the politics of urban dwelling 🧶

‘If only we had the space’ is an exhibition of contemporary craft responding to modern and contemporary politics of housing, property rights and access to ‘space’, including key archives of Glasgow’s housing redevelopments and movements from the 1960’s to the 1990’s.

Curated by Rachel Ashenden, Soizig Carey, Jemima Dansey-Wright and Murray Morrant. Running until this Saturday 26 Oct!
(Wednesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm)

Image 1: Open Day at Castlemilk Womanhouse 1990

Image 2: 'Letter from a Housing Scheme: A Mother’s Thoughts', Cathy McCormack, Scottish Child, 1988

06/10/2024

Delighted to host a special panel with Dr Adele Patrick .patrick and Deirdre Nelson (two of my favourite Glasgow women 💫) as part of ‘If only we had the space’, an exhibition of contemporary craft responding to modern and contemporary politics of housing, property rights and access to ‘space’ 🏠

Join us on Saturday 19 October!
14.00 - 15.00
Platform Easterhouse
Free but ticketed - see link in bio 👆🏼

We’ll hear more about Adele’s decades-long activism and experience in housing projects, including Take Root, a pioneering women’s timber frame, self build housing project ⚒️ Despite developing skills in self-building honed at the Centre for Alternative Technology and Monimail Permaculture Association, being supported by Segal Method architect Mary Kelly and gaining funding and land from Molendinar Housing Association the group’s aims to self build were ultimately dashed by misogynistic councillors and excoriating tabloid press coverage that proclaimed “loony le****ns plan man-free zone”.

Known for her ability to translate social commentary into textiles, Deirdre will talk about her work featured in the exhibition. ‘Surplus’ is a bright red knitted money box depicting a new-build house. It was created in response to Irish ghost estates that exist as a result of the 2008 property crash. In 2023, it was reported that 75 ghost estates still haunt Ireland, either unoccupied or in varying states of disrepair or dereliction.

‘If only we had the space’ is curated by Rachel Ashenden .ashenden , Soizig Carey , Jemima Dansey-Wright and Murray Morrant . The exhibition will run from 17 to 26 October 2024  (Wednesday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm) for more details, see link in bio.

Delivered in association with Craft Scotland, as part of COMPASS: Emerging Curator Programme, and Katy West, Programme Lead.

Image 1: Take Root Self Build Pamphlet, archive
Image 2: Adele Patrick, photographed for House Work article in the Sunday Herald
Image 3: Deirdre Nelson, photographed by Laura Prieto Martin
Image 4: Site planning, Take Root, archive

13/07/2024

Back in studio this weekend and so delighted to have been awarded the Inches Carr Craft Bursary Established Maker 2024! ✨ A joy to be amongst some brilliant makers. Thank you to Craft Scotland and the panel for the trust 🌱

📸 Torc ring hand carved in Scottish Chalcedony 🪨

Repost 🥁 Announcing the recipients of the Inches Carr Craft Bursaries 2024!

Craft Scotland is delighted to present the seven makers awarded prestigious Inches Carr Craft Bursaries in 2024. Congratulations to:

🌟 Emerging Makers: William Threlfall, Marzena Ostromecka, Ruth Mae Martin and Monica Findlay
🌟 Established Makers: Soizig Carey, Viv Lee and Kate Colin.
👉 Learn more in bio

Every Emerging and Established Maker showcased work of remarkable quality and was awarded a bursary of £2,000 and £5,000 respectively. This may be used differently by each recipient, with the common purpose of developing their craft practice.

Selection panellist Frances Priest encouraged the awardees to “have fun, delve deep, and enjoy the new directions of travel you wish to explore. I can't wait to see where your work will take you next.”

Since 2022, Craft Scotland has been entrusted with stewardship of the Inches Carr Craft Bursaries, which were established in 1997 to commemorate the late Deidre Inches and Malcolm Carr.

Image 1: Established Maker Soizig Carey/ Photography by the artist
Image 2: Established Maker Viv Lee / Photography by Gabriela Silveira
Image 3: Established Maker Kate Colin / Photography by the artist
Image 4: Emerging Maker William Threlfall / Photography by the artist
Image 5: Emerging Maker Monica Findlay / Photography by the artist
Image 6: Emerging Maker Marzena Ostromecka / Photography by the artist
Image 7: Emerging Maker Ruth Mae Martin / Photography by the artist

25/05/2024

Very excited to co-host textile makers and with co-curator Murray Morrant - for an online conversation around craft as escapism and an intervention in relation to our domestic and working spaces.

Wed 5 June, 6 - 7.30pm BST (7 - 8.30pm CEST)

Register now at the link in bio! Free to attend, limited tickets available. Hosted via Zoom.

Vega Määttä Siltberg will share more about the ‘Shibori Room’, a dyed textile installation as part of the Workflow exhibition at Konsthantverkscentrum in Stockholm. In the words of the maker herself,

‘this room is a calm space where your mind can focus and let go of stressful thoughts’. The installation’s placement at the window is intentional, an invitation to the passerby to come inside and investigate this whimsical tent-like object.

Matilda Dominique will share more about ‘Memories of a Kitchen Towel’, her article from the Swedish Weaving Magazine in 2022. Dominique’s eloquent essay explores texture, touch and familial heritage:

‘My own personal memories of texture are most strongly connected to my grandmother. Her interest in weaving is the very reason I began to weave myself. I remember her large floor loom that always had a warp on when I came for a visit. It is the same loom that now lives in my studio’.

About Workflow

Workflow is a Konsthantverkscentrum members’ exhibition on now until Sat 31 Aug 2024 at The Swedish Crafts Centre, Bellmansgatan 5, Stockholm.

Curated by .ashenden , supported by

06/01/2024

Dcumenting craft, objects and things to hold and touch from 2023... Expressions of tangible love (non religious meaning!).

1 Gaza Birdhouse from picked up at 🕊️

This Gaza-made traditional birdhouse is for small birds and widely used in people’s gardens and on their terraces. The birds’ freedom of flight and movement is in sharp contrast to the experience of the people of Gaza, often referred to as an ‘open air prison’, long under military siege imposed by the Israeli occupation and now under total bombardment and destruction. This birdhouse is handmade by visually impaired people in the Open Studio of the Red Crescent Hospital in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip.

2 Kåsa, Stockholm

Highly unusual resin impregnated traditional mug (kåsa in Swedish). The woodworker saw not only an easy-to-hold drinking cup, but also a face looking back up at the drinker. From Lima, Dalarna county, dated 1817.

3 Ebba Flies, Stockholm

Ebba Hedqvist was a prominent Swedish painter and sculptor, the daughter of a sawmill worker Ernst Johan Hedqvist. In 1961, she formed Stiftelsen Konstnärshem (the Artists Home Foundation), which in the Svalgången neighborhood on Södermalm in Stockholm provides housing for older, sick and disabled artists. This commemorative plaque by Batte Sahlin is installed on the facade of the house. A public dedication.

4 From the River to the Sea (Palestine will be free)... 🫒 🍉

Textile from Xaytun Ennasr’s multimedia installation, Revolution is a forest that the colonist can’t burn. Part of the stunning In the shade of the sun . Celebrating trees as symbols of resistance and devotion.Trees are situated not as resources waiting to be extracted but as beings that are loved and that love back.

03/11/2023

'In the media, Gaza is an abstraction, a space designed for the violent death of an abstract people inhabiting it. This death comes at the hands of a natural, impersonal force—not one of the most powerful armies in the world propped up by the most powerful state in the world, with a government, and a people electing this government. It is a convenient framing, one that shifts guilt away from Israel.

The destruction comes from above, and those who die are meant to die. All is as it should be. To that, we offer a correction: Gaza is not an abstraction. It is a shore and beaches and streets and markets and cities with names of flowers and fruits, not an abstraction but places and lives and people that are being bombed into oblivion.'

GAZA IS NOT AN ABSTRACTION
Karim Kattan

Thank you to a friend for sharing. Strongly encourage a read of this article... what it is to experience a century long campaign of erasure. Free Palestine. Stop the genocide.

Images: Wildflowers of Palestine 🇵🇸❤️ from

26/10/2023

Chunky curved Torc rings in Silver and Chalcedony stone. Carved by hand this summer with .

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