I have already designed the piece of Textile Art which is to be a large scale, hand embroidered memorial artwork. I did some calculations on stitch size and worked out the kid of fabric that I would use and how much I would require. This worked out at approximately 4.5m x 1.5m where one stitch represents the life of one person who had died. The artwork will also include a 3D embroidered representation of a Covid-19 molecule and the legend “Covid-19 UK.” The colours used in the embroidery will be minimal to provide impact ie black stitches on a red ground.
As the death toll rose to over 100,000, around Christmas 2020 and it was announced that despite a vaccine, having been developed, the virus would still claim victims for the foreseeable future due to variants of the Covid-19 virus developing. I have decided that I had to make a cut-off point somewhere to make my project viable and have decided to represent everyone in the UK who had died from between 23/03/2020-23/03/2021 – my birthday date and the anniversary of the date of the first lockdown. Due to the large number of stitches involved I anticipate that this work would take several months to complete as I would be the only one undertaking the embroidery. FUNDING I realised that due to our personal financial situation, I could not afford to fund the work myself, so looked at obtaining sponsorship for my project but kept being met with declinations or did not receive answers from the potential sponsors who approached. Time was now passing quickly, and so I investigated the possibility of Crowd funding my project. This was an easy process and my appeal for funding was launched today- 05/02/2021 at 09:00. The money that is raised will provide me with the appropriate amounts of fabrics, threads and other embroidery materials to complete the project. Other monies will provide finance for promotion and exhibition of the work in the public domain. I decided to really go out of my comfort zone and produce a blog to accompany the project so that people can see the work in progress and the results as they happen. If you would like to contribute to my memorial project I would be very grateful. You can make a donation at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/user/fiona-worrall/projects/6WkzoXLl
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