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We asked 10 artists and 10 writers to respond to the history of the Needlemakers of Redditch and Studley.

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We all visited the Forge Mill Museum and learnt about the lives of the men, women and children who worked in the needle making trade in the nineteenth century.

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At the exhibition opening the writers performed short pieces of poetry and drama to an audience in amongst the artworks on show.

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Each of the writers produced a specially presented copy of their text and the resulting collection of these texts was sold to audience members.

 

A copy of the texts is held in Studley library.

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art\write ran a workshop in Studley High School for GCSE art students in partnership with the Studley Needle Heritage Project

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The idea behind the project was to see how artists and writers would each respond to the same stimulus, this time not literary but based on social history.