Quilting Panel Talk

Free ticketed event

Join contemporary, Welsh quilters for a panel discussion about their work, the craft of quilting and the role quilting plays in Welsh culture.

Hosted by Rhys Slade-Jones with panel members include:

Tomos Williams
Tomos Williams is an artist based in Cardiff. His practice is centred around stitch – sewn and knitted – text and ideas of place and memory.

Vivian Ross-Smith
Vivian Ross-Smith (she/they) is an artist working in a squishy place between care, ecology and tactility. Her site-specific performances, textiles and objects draw on queering practices and reflect their islander identity. Often, Vivian uses her practice to build community around an idea or place, seeking collaboration with other artists, rural communities, materials, and landscape.

Born in Edinburgh and raised in Fair Isle, Shetland, Vivian holds a BA(Hons) from Gray’s School of Art (2013) and a Masters with Distinction from Glasgow School of Art (2020). They were the inaugural Freelands Studio Fellow at Swansea College of Art (2023). Vivian works as part of South Wales performance collective, SGÔR.

Samantha Jones
Samantha Jones is a quilt maker using traditional methods to create contemporary quilts. With an interest in making from an early age, Samantha was taught to sew and knit by her grandmother as a child. During her Fine Art studies, she began to develop a particular interest in patchwork quilts and quilt making as a process, and has been actively producing quilts since 2005.

Samantha firmly believes in makers sharing their skills and has a great interest in heritage and the longstanding history of quilt making in Wales. She is a recipient of Heritage Craft bursary for critically endangered crafts and is currently focusing on hand quilting in a frame using a rocking stitch technique.

Making from her home studio in Cardiff, South Wales, Samantha has worked collaboratively with National Museum of Wales, Wales in Venice team for Venice Biennale 2019, The Quilters Guild, Artis Community, Age Connects, and Calon Yarn Craft Studios.

11th JULY // 3.30pm – 4.30pm

Treorchy Library