Location: TAM’s Event Space
Start Time: 6pm
Fabrica Ars : Short Works by Jennifer Nightingale, Jodie Mack, and Grace Ndiritu
The Knitting Patterns Series
Jennifer Nightingale, 2016–2024
A series of knitting films that use a single-frame production technique to translate Guernsey knitting patterns. The films have been shot and edited on location in the fishing villages where the patterns derive from, on the coast of Cornwall, Yorkshire, Norfolk and the Faroe Islands. Gesture, landscape and film are ‘knitted together’ as a material object, re-embedding the patterns into the location that inspired them.
The Cornish Knitting Patterns: Porthleven; St Ives: Background Slip-Stitch; Polperro: Snake cable; The Lizard: Lattice
2016, 4 min
In these films the camera position corresponds with the visually dramatic Cornish coast and the locations that people historically inhabited when knitting these patterns.
The Faroese Knitting Patterns: Night and Day; Back and Forth; Goose Eye; Gjovi; Nordrogata
2017, 3 min
A selection of films that explore the natural rhythms of the Faroese landscape.
The Yorkshire Knitting Patterns: Robin Hoods Bay I; Whitby Pattern VII Flag
2023, 2 min
Cycles of tourism and tides.
The Norfolk Knitting Patterns: Sheringham: Jimmy Chibbles Herringbone; Cromer: Gilbert Rook’s Seeds and Bars Gansey
2024, 2 min
Two films that highlight the horizon of the Norfolk Coast landscape.
Knitting a Frame
Jennifer Nightingale, 2008, 5 min, 16mm
The ball of wool seen at the sitter’s feet loops over the single-frame release of a 16mm Bolex camera and back to the knitting. For every stitch that is knitted, an exposure is made, creating a structural relationship between production of fabric and a frame.
Knitting Pattern no1
Jennifer Nightingale, 2013, 3 min, 16mm
The translation of a Fair Isle knitting pattern into an animation produced frame-by-frame, exploring time, pattern and optical color mixing.
Point de Gaze
Jodie Mack , 2012, 4m 46s, 16mm, color, silent
Named after a type of Belgian lace, this spectral study investigates intricate illusion and optical arrest.
Still Life: White Textiles
Grace Ndiritu , 2005/2007
Still Life: White Textiles is one of the four videos that use West African textiles in a sensual and, at times, unnerving physical performance by the artist to camera. Ndiritu wraps, conceals and reveals her body, creating and controlling tensions within the fabric to provoke different emotional responses.
Still Life: Lying Down Textiles
Grace Ndiritu , 2005/2007
Still Life: Lying Down Textiles is one of the four videos that use West African textiles in a sensual and, at times, unnerving physical performance by the artist to camera. Ndiritu wraps, conceals and reveals her body, creating and controlling tensions within the fabric to provoke different emotional responses. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London.
Filament is a moving image series at TAM conceived in dialogue with the exhibition Soft Power – a cinematic response to and reflection on the multivalent themes, both latent and tangible, in the textile-based artwork.
Free or by donation.