Naomi Cotrufo - Embroidered Fancies

Sugar & Spice Exhibition 2010

2010-10-19T13:05:00.000-07:00

'Sugar & Spice'

An exhibition of Ceramics and Textiles on the theme of childhood memory featuring work by Angie Hardwick, Naomi Cotrufo and Susan Forbes.

-Preview evening with wine & nibbles Friday 22nd October 2010, 5-8.
-Open to the public from 27th October - 19th November 2010, Monday - Friday 9-5.
-The Clocktower Gallery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

Angie Hardwick
Life is complicated and untidy. I make ceramic items, influenced by important events that unfold around me.
I have recently moved house and become a mum, I use objects relating to these particular times in my life to reflect various feelings and emotions.
I currently participate in numerous art and craft activities and deliver workshops to all members of the community.

Susan Forbes
I work in education, the voluntary sector & the community doing residencies & workshops passing on my passion for arts to all ages & abilities.
I specialise with groups sharing textile crafts which plays a huge part in communication & learning.
As a young child my mother taught me to knit & stitch, while creating a life-long passion for textiles.
Just as my grandmother taught my mother & aunts, I passed on those skills to my eldest daughter

Naomi Cotrufo
I gained a First and overall best student award for my BA Hons Textiles/Crafts degree at Huddersfield University last year specialising in Embroidery.
I now work with my mother on various community projects such as the Youth Service & Refugee Womens Group, while making work for sale.

I am exhibiting with Angie and Susan now, after showing at The Quilt Show at the NEC last summer.

We are all members of The Fringe, Doncaster Visual Artists Network & have been inspired by nursery rhymes & our childhood memories to collaborate together.
We have shared stands at Craft Markets & Art Fairs all over Yorkshire in the past year & are already booked for the next few months.

Hope to see you there,
Naomi.

More details on the link below:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155509674489774&index=1

Workshops & Events continued.....

2010-03-16T06:56:00.000-07:00

These mini workshops i did while my final show was on last july at Huddersfield University.
The idea was to create a collage about your favourite memory, using a range of papers, stickers, bits of fabrics etc.

Workshops & Events

2010-03-16T06:30:00.000-07:00

These are a few photos from different community workshops i have done with childeren and their familes.

This was half-term workshops at Wakefield Cathedral (Feb 2009) ....

Keep In the Lines Exhibition . . .

2010-01-11T08:44:00.000-08:00

Come along and see my work :

11 January – 26 February

Inspired by the touring exhibition “My Giant Colouring Book” at Doncaster Museum which will feature the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman, the Gallery at The Point is working with four Fringe artists who will be making new work using the theme of colouring books as inspiration.

Mandy Keating is creating a giant fold out book and mobile, Kate Sully is making a giant butterfly shaped book, Naomi Cotrufo is creating embroidered and stitched panels and sketchbooks and Susan Forbes will make new work using the tales which we tell to children as her inspiration.

See link for more details (Map/directions) :

http://www.thepoint.org.uk/thepoint/exhibitions/current/default.aspx

SAMPLE

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http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FHuddersfield-United-Kingdom%2FSAMPLE%2F125857126946%3Fref%3Dnf&h=b5c8ed4a32b64d246dc3ba4d8a1f8a58

NOISE FESTIVAL

2009-10-01T11:31:00.001-07:00

http://www.noisefestival.com/index.php?option=com_preview_portfolio&Itemid=87

Meet my sketchbook project‏

2009-09-21T07:14:00.000-07:00

I entered some of my drawing work as part of this 'Meet My Sketchbook' project, and they have featured two pages with my work on, and activities to do that i have put together. The project is to try and encourage the use of sketchbooks in school, something i think is very important as alot of my work is based in my skecthbooks, then i develop ideas from that. Here is a link to my page... take a look ...

http://www.accessart.org.uk/sketchbook/?p=2205

http://www.accessart.org.uk/sketchbook/?p=2190

And here is there website with more info on ...

http://www.accessart.org.uk/sketchbook/

The Festival of Quilts 2009 - Birmingham NEC

2009-08-24T15:35:00.000-07:00

This was a great experince, met lots of people and saw some great work! Here are some snaps of my stand, my houses and washing line attracted lots of attention!

It's motivated me to get making and creating more work!

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http://www.thegicleeservice.com/naomi-cotrufo/

Final Major Project- "Chapter 21"

2009-08-24T11:01:00.000-07:00

This was my final collection of work. I cretaed 3D stitched, embroidered, collage, mixed-media cardboard houses, inspired by my childhood memories and storytelling.

Hello !

2009-08-24T10:32:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, this is my first blog. Just getting used to this 'blogging' thing.