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A Month of Charity Shop Diving & Clothing Regeneration

February 14, 2022 @ 12:00 pm 3:00 pm

If you’ve been looking for an outlook for your creativity, look no further! We’re in need of all the budding fashionistas, under the age of 30, for our own Dumfries & Galloway twist on Project Runway. Come and rummage through the treasures of Dumfries’ High St charity shops and then spend the rest of February regenerating and reinventing the pieces into a new, community made, fashion collection. Join a collective of like-minded individuals interested in fashion, textiles and sustainability – no experience required, just a desire to get stuck in and think outside the box!!

This is a 5 session event, participants are advised to attend all sessions in the series. All session dates are listed below:

SESSION 1

Saturday 5th February 12-3pm – CHARITY SHOP DIVE

Get a taste of what’s to come and join in with our charity shop rummage. We’ll meet at The Stove, discuss our project desires and collective #vision before hitting the shops and collecting the starting goods! What’s better than shopping I hear you ask? Shopping with someone else’s money! As a group, we’ll have a budget to spend on our starting charity shop finds, so no need to bring anything other than yourself and some excitement to get us through!

SESSION 2

Monday 7th February 5-7pm – CREATIVE PLANNING

Here’s where the ‘real work’ starts! We’ve got four weeks to turn these charity shop garments around and reimagine something new entirely! We’ll start off this session by curating our garments and materials, drawing and planning our project outcomes and initiating textiles test ideas of potential processes. Mood boards, concept ideas, visualisations…we’ll be doing it all…

SESSION 3

Monday 14th February 5-7pm – CREATIVE MAKING: TESTING & DEVELOPING

This week we’ll be in full making mode, developing and producing our community fashion collection through textiles and fashion upcycling processes. Sharing skills, we’ll be looking into all the different ways we can manipulate the garments we have to generate our desired outcome. Embroidery, stencil screen printing, patchwork, embellishment and maybe even some knitting (??) the possibilities are endless, and our minds are open!

SESSION 4

Monday 21st February 5-7pm – CREATIVE MAKING: THE MEATY ONE

There’s no way round it, there’ll be lots to do and much sewing, cutting and sticking(?!) to be done to get everything ready in time. Seeing the creations come to life we’ll be making sure everything is looking runway ready in no time. Think ‘Great British Sewing Bee’ with no tears or stress but lots of laughs and creativity!

SESSION 5

Monday 28th February 5-7pm – CREATIVE MAKING: THE FINISHING TOUCHES

It’s all hands-on deck for the final push to get this community fashion collection off the ground! As well as finishing off the collection itself (sewing in all those pesky threads!!), we’ll be solidifying the overall project aesthetic and creating visualisations to influence a final photoshoot before all is revealed at the Creative Spaces showcase in March.

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Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway DG1 2BJ United Kingdom
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Tonight – Art Music + Art Fashion!!!

Wednesday, 7th November – 7 PM
Greyfriars Church, Dumfries DG1 1DF
Admission is free.

The much anticipated launch of Lisa Gallacher’s bespoke garment collection TRDM: Dumfries. Furthermore, The World Premiere of Suzanne Parry John’s song-cycle Tidemarks.

Lisa Gallacher has been working for four months with a group of ten volunteers from the community of Dumfries – members of the group range in age from 15 to 86 years old. The work started with conversations about each person’s individual relationship to the town, and this then grew into an idea for ten bespoke garments. Lisa has designed and printed the fabrics, then designed and made all of the work herself. At tonight’s event, she will give an illustrated talk about the project, and her group will be in attendance wearing the garments they have created together.

Suzanne Parry John is a contemporary young composer based in Edinburgh. Commissioned by The Stove to produce an original piece of music for Inbetween, Dumfries, Suzanne turned to the River Nith as a starting point and discovered the poems of Hugh McMillan. She made contact with the poet, and they have collaborated on this original song-cycle inspired by the Nith, entitled Tidemarks.

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Something Special This Way Comes

Lisa Gallacher is an artist from Dumfries who has worked all over the UK and Europe since graduating from the Glasgow School of Art with an MFA in 2003. Since April, Lisa has been working on a project called TDRM: Dumfries, which has involved detailed research and making articles of bespoke clothing for ten local folk.


Lisa Gallacher – Queensberry Street Fabric

This has been a truly ambitious undertaking, with Lisa first designing and printing her own fabrics before turning them into new garments. This was the scene at the artist’s temporary studio in The Stove in the centre of Dumfries today:

We’d urge anyone with an interest in the arts and seeing an artist working at the top of their game to come along to the public event marking the project. NB: The garments will not be on show like this again… this is a once-only opportunity.

COME TO GREYFRIARS CHURCH, DUMFRIES… 7 pm on Wednesday, 7th November… FREE (and a glass of wine to boot)

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Inspired by Dumfries

The Dumfries and Galloway Standard has had its reporters out and about:

“It wouldn’t be the first town you’d think of if you were asked to name a fashion hotspot of the world. But thanks to visual artist Lisa Gallacher, a collection of bespoke pieces created and inspired by Doonhamers and their town will be exhibited here next month.”

Fabric based in Paling’s Window by Lisa Gallacher

TRDM: Dumfries is one of eight creative projects specially commissioned by the artists’ collective The Stove for their exhibition InBetween: Dumfries. The project will culminate in a collection of “Dumfries Inspired” made-to-measure garments being shown at The Stove’s base on the town’s High Street throughout the beginning of November. The Dumfries-born, internationally acclaimed artist has collaborated with ten local residents from all walks of life to create an item of clothing, representing what the town means to them.

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