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Postcards from Canvey Island

These pages are a sketchbook of ideas and research from my wanderings on Canvey Island whilst artist in residence at Cornelius Vermuyden School.

There were also the Sheldon Tapestries, huge woven hanging maps of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire, into which red threads had been discreetly insinuated to mark many known recusant hide-outs.

from The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane



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Vanessa Rolf
Journeys, maps and the physical exploration of a landscape are the main focus for my work. My textiles relate stitch, texture and composition to maps and documentary photographs but also aim to capture the essence of a place. I look to the relationship between the geography, mapping of movement and the recorded experience of a place.
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