The symposium  

🧵 Meet the Artists 
📆 30 August 2025
📍 ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, TA11 7NB 

Join the conversation on Friday 3 October at Textile Talks; textiles, sustainability and collaboration, where seam collective and invited speakers will discuss themes of sustainability and regeneration in textile art. This one day event will be held at Somerton Parish Rooms and ACEarts. Early bird tickets are now available here. We also have a limited number of discounted student tickets so, if you’re a student, buy yours today.

🧵 Textile Talks; textiles, sustainability and collaboration
📆  3 October 2025
📍 Somerton Parish Rooms + ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, TA11 7NB

Warped and Wasted is seam’s ambitious project for 2025, which will focus on textiles, sustainability and collaboration. 

We are absolutely thrilled to share that we’ve been awarded funding from Arts Council England! This incredible support, along with our crowdfunder success, means that all of the proposed events and activities for our Warped and Wasted project will go ahead – so get your diary out and pop these dates in! 

The exhibition 

Warped and Wasted will open at 10am on Saturday 23 August at ACEarts. This ambitious exhibition will showcase the work of 14 seam members who have been working together to create an experimental, large-scale, collaborative art installation, made with 100% waste, existing second-hand or biodegradable materials.  

🧵 Warped and Wasted
📆 23 August-11 October 2025
📍 ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7NB 

The artists  

There will be an opportunity to meet the seam artists exhibiting in Warped and Wasted, and to discuss their work with them, on Saturday 30 August, 11am-1pm. 

The artists taking part are Alice Marie Archer, Lou Baker, Oliver Bliss, Youngye Glory Cho, Jane Colquhoun, Julie Heaton, Desiree Jeans, Nina Gronw Lewis, Helen MacRitchie, Joy Merron, Lydia Needle, Angie Parker, Nicola Turner and Penny Wheeler.

Thank you! 

The incredible support we’ve received from Arts Council England will enable us to take the next big steps in our creative journey. This milestone is a huge leap forward for us – and it wouldn’t have been possible without your continued belief and support. Thank you for being part of this journey! We can’t wait to bring you behind-the-scenes as we develop the exhibition and share more exciting updates along the way. 

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