Tonight I will be stitching here http://www.residencepop-up.com/# while people eat drink and make merry. I will be making stitchures of some of the diners. Cripes, no pressure then!

check out http://www.ink-d.co.uk/whats-on/2010/03/group-show-renegade-potters-and-extreme-craft where I am exhibiting my dating profiles, swearing pieces and blow job images! Hurrah, they wont be banned either!
Private view this evening, exhibition is on for a month. Check it out!

Oooo so busy at uni, lots to do and all of it keeping me away from here and from my sewing machine :(

My 3 blow jobs images were exhibited briefly (and badly) at Shoreditch before being removed as they offended someone! I am amazed quite frankly but imagine if they were naked shots of women then that would have been acceptable (and so normal that no-one would have noticed really). Of course these images are uncomfortable and disturbing - that's the fucking point Shoreditch people! And I thought it was such a hip and cool area; clearly not!

More absence....  I am reading, writing and watching old films (in preparation for a 5000 word term paper about Katherine Hepburn and her reel life vs her real life); my sewing machines are quiet and lonely and gathering dust...  I must return to them pronto, maybe this weekend, yes, I will, I will sew something this weekend.  I'm tired, I'm sleeping badly, my new pc has gone away for its 2nd repair and I am preparing for 2 christmas shows - one here and one here    oh and I have had a new haircut :)

So yes, I am busy and hot and tired but mostly happy.

Oh dear, I have no idea when I was last here, but I fear it was a long time ago for which - if anyone has missed me - I apologise.

I have begun my wonderful MA in Gender & Media at Sussex University.  It is quite brilliant, the course, the campus, the people, the coffee, the environment and, especially, the books that I am (attempting to) read.  I am delighted to report that the reading of these academic books is getting easier; I dont have to look up every other word anymore.  Just every 5th word perhaps. 

Currently I am wading through an article called "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" and "Bisexual Women, Non-Monogamy and Differentialist Anti Promiscuity Discourses" and of course not forgetting "Who's Afraid of Feminism", "The Will to Knowledge" and "Feminism & Sexuality" (stunning!)

So, needless to say my poor little sewing machine is currently getting a tad dusty as I havent had time to sew anything.  I did have a successful exhibition at the Brighton Art Fair - though I probably only covered my costs, I did have a huge amount of appreciation for my work, with the exception of the woman who took offence to this, in fact she was so offended by it she had to take a photo of it, which amused me no end.

It was wonderful to see people come along and simply smile or laugh at my work (in the nicest possible way of course!) so I dont mind that I didnt have a sell out.  I dont know that many people did.

I did get some interest from a local shop and I will be featured in their window next week for 2 weeks plus an invite to share a Brighton Xmas Open House with the lovely Lisa Gellender.

So I am still somewhat hovering in between academic and creative mode, mostly in academic mode but as soon as things calm down a little and I get into some sort of normal routine, my sewing will be inspired by all that I am absorbing via books and you will see the results here..  at least they will be posted here anyhow; whether I have any kind of audience is another matter!

I am intrigued (and disappointed too) by the way women conform to the ridiculous sexist ideals that pornography continues to espouse.  It's all so dreary and predictable and, of course, misogynistic.

I also find the nonsense that (some) men come out with as they spunk all over your face, assuming that women like it, rather pathetic I'm afraid.  (I know this sounds like I have turned into a very prim and proper 50 something spinster which is soooooooo not the case!)

Anyhow, here is my response to my latest niggle (there will be more of these soon)

TELL ME YOU LIKE IT, BABY

TAKE IT SLUT, YOU KNOW YOU LOVE IT

TAKE IT ALL, BITCH

A nice little write up about me by those awfully nice people at Design for Mankind

http://www.designformankind.com/2009/08/lou-trigg/

I havent sewn anything for a while; I've gone into a strange place and hopefully will escape it soon. I have a zillion books to read in the next couple of months before my MA starts.  Some I can understand and am enjoying.  Some are way too wordy for me at the moment. Hopefully that will change.

I just need to get on with it and stop wasting time and feeling sorry for myself!