Stitching Solidariy Quilt

For the next month, CoCA is hosting 'Stitching Solidarity: Artists for Palestine'.

This work is the first iteration of a collective kaupapa inspired by a long history of collaborative artist-activist quilt making.       

Through the creation of a solidarity quilt, the project brings artists from across the motu together to enact solidarity with the people of Palestine. Each participant has contributed a fabric artwork to show their support. 

  
The quilt will then travel around the motu, expanding in scale as the communities which host it add their own contributions. 
  

Rachel Dedman, in the preface to Stitching the Intifada: Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine, writes: 
  

‘Embroidery has, perhaps, an unlikely role in the charged context of protest. And yet, in both loud and quiet ways, in public and private, the history of the craft is bound up in Palestinian struggles for freedom and nationhood.’  
  

This project was conceived by Kirsty Baker, and has been facilitated in collaboration with Elle Loui August, Zoe Black, Abby Cunnane, Simon Gennard, Ioana Gordon-Smith, Milly Mitchell-Anyon, Israel Randell, DJCS and Matariki Williams. 
  

For CoCA, as hosts, this quilt is our way of highlighting the importance of artmaking as a form of freedom of expression.

 

If you, or your organisation, are interested in hosting the quilt, or contributing a  fabric artwork, please email: aotearoasolidarityquilt@gmail.com  

 

To learn more about each individual panel visit @stitching_solidarity_aotearoa on Instagram.