So exciting! We have been successful in our application to the British Council for our collaboration with Tbilisi Academy, the Georgia Arts and Culture Centre and UCA. Our theme is the reconfiguration of traditional crafts, specifically Blue Cloth/indigo. Linda Brassington will be leading for UCA and Prof Tinatin Kldiashvili for the Acadamy in Tbilisi. Both are experts in the field - Linda as a contemporary indigo artist and UNESCO advisor for Intangible Cultural Heritage (Blue Cloth) and Tinatin as a contemporary artist and designer using traditional Blue Cloth heritage. Linda will travel to Tbilisi next Spring and work together with Tinatin. At the end of the collaboration Simon and I will host a conference in Tbilisi where we will invite papers on the relationship between tradition/heritage and contemporary practice. We will then exhibit at the Crafts Study Centre at UVA the works created by both artists and host an 'in conversation' event.
Linda Brassington
Tinatin Klidiashvili