2025 - 09
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Here is a nugget of creative exploration with CREATIVE BOOST, where artist Celia Pym talks to me about her creative process.
Celia’s philosophy on darning and her sense of the importance of repair in the everyday has always fascinated me. Her exquisite creations from moth eaten jumpers to a mended fish and chip bag scared bright with multicoloured thread. The focus is on the process, of taking a needle, some coloured wool and flourishing within this mundane task.
I was lucky enough to select her as the 10th anniversary fashion exhibition at NOW Gallery, bringing a serious sustainability and Socks to the gallery. Celia worked with Surrey Square Primary School community in Southwark using industry ‘warehouse’ waste socks. Children, staff and families of the school, learnt and practised their darning and stitching skills on socks, during a series of 26 workshops facilitated by Pym.
Celia Pym talks about her process, how she she repairs damage in textile with joy and attention and how her left field vision create beautiful objects from waste.