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on 21 March, 2pm–3pm, later available on demand. Looking at the history, principles and processes behind using stitch as a form of mindfulness, she will refer to the incredible autobiographical jacket created by psychiatric patient Agnes Richter in 1895. At the end of the session, Helen will launch her new collaborative project. (It is not necessary to attend the workshop to join the project.) embroiderersguild.com/workshops – Project kits, £4.50 plus £3.90 for postage and packaging, will be available at the website below after the workshop on 21 March and until 27 June.

Squares should be returned by at Untangled Threads, Scarborough, in May 2027, and then made available for exhibition. untangledthreads.co.uk – Helen is donating half the fees and commission from her workshop for the Embroiderers’ Guild to MIND and half to the Embroiderers’ Guild. The charities will also both receive £1 from the sale of every project kit, and half each from the auction of the tailored coats.

PGCE and became head of a school art department within secondary education, followed by running workshops and setting up Untangled Threads. Untangled Threads, she notes, is about ‘fostering curiosity: showing people where to look, but not what to see. It is about empowering self-discovery.’ As an artist, her work looks at connections, memory and shared emotional intelligence, using fabric, print, poetry and prose, and materials which have ‘passed through generations, retaining physical and emotional traces of previous contacts’.

Helen is also fascinated by evolution and heredity: that chance mutation, a repetition, another layer formed. Helen believes that stitching and creating as part of a group is the ‘very essence łĹĶłŀŀňŁļŇŌяпłծĸŅļŁĺļŁķļʼnļķňĴĿņĴ chance to look inwards, while at the same time allowing everyone to be valued and respected as an essential part of the whole. Helen has run several successful national fundraising projects involving collaborative textile work, including the 1,568 Sawdust Hearts Project, The Stitchbook Project, Hearts & MIND and Primordial Soup, ĺļʼnļŁĺňŃĻĸŅŇļŀĸĹłŅŇĻĸĵĸŁĸձҳųŇĻĸŅņт She intends that the two tailored coats from her latest project will be exhibited alongside her new exhibition JANE in May 2027 and that ultimately, they will be auctioned in aid of MIND and the Embroiderers’ Guild.

helenbirmingham.com untangledthreads.co.uk Opposite page: Agnes Emma Richter, 1895–1916. Jacket sewn by hand, embroidered with autobiographical and other texts. © PRINZHORN COLLECTION, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG. Top left: Helen Birmingham, Hundertwasser-inspired cushions, in contrasting pink and green. Machine and hand stitched in wool, silk and linen. Above: Helen Birmingham, photomontage taken from the artist’s forthcoming JANE exhibition.

Above right: Helen Birmingham, Agnes. Hand stitched on linen as part of the collection The Poetry of Textiles, work in progress.

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