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Exhibitions

My step-grandmother would have loved this show: Unbound At Two Temple Place reviewed

7 February 2020

10:00 PM

7 February 2020

10:00 PM

Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles

Two Temple Place, until 19 April

My step-grandmother Connie was an inspired needlewoman. For ten years, as a volunteer for the charity Fine Cell Work, she taught embroidery to inmates at HM Prison Wandsworth. She once told me that she was tired of being a ‘committee woman’: ‘I wanted to be down in the arena with the sawdust.’

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