Crafting Geometry

Supported by a Craft Council Spark Plug Award

The Constance Howard Centre was delighted to receive one of the first Spark Plug Curator Awards from the Crafts Council. This awards scheme aims to provide the opportunity for a minimum of four selected curators each year to develop an ambitious and innovative exhibition project.

Crafting Geometry was a collaboration between curator and writer, Janis Jefferies and May Cornet, Textile alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London.

The project sought to examine the creative and dynamic relationship between mathematics, mathematical forms and pattern through commission and collaboration, making new work from a particular maths and textiles archive, ‘Common Threads’ that is held in the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles. Mary Harris devised and produced “Common Threads” at a time when issues of gender, class and race were high on the agendas of mathematics education. Harris is a mathematician and committed teacher who developed ways of teaching mathematics through looking at textile objects.

Janis Jefferies, the team at the Constance Howard Centre and May Cornet were interested in ways in which the collection could be brought to a wider audience. in particular, we wanted to examine the creative and dynamic relationship between mathematics, mathematical forms and textiles.

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Goldsmiths - University of London

Crafting Geometry

Supported by a Craft Council Spark Plug Award

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