Julia Desch - Artist and Poet

24/12/2025

Detail of Prescription For Joy

12/12/2025

Joyful summer colours for my Prescription for Joy

12/12/2025

This a detail from my piece called Prescription for Joy made during Lockdown when I spent many happy hours walking the lanes in the High Weald in East Sussex observing nature and collecting data for Surveys and an Exhibition on the local landscape history. Colours all hand dyed and later exhibited with in Chichester . Pure Wensleydale dry and wet felted many happy memories of that summer

09/10/2025

Wonderful replay of Simon Armitage at the Proms performing his Shipping Forecast - inspiring - so love his work

28/08/2025

Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So it would be all too easy for any future government to allow fracking to start again. This wou...

24/08/2025

I am beyond excited and thrilled now to be a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts not for cudos but because it will enable me to facilitate more in my Legacy years I hope. Thank you all who helped!!

16/08/2025

Some 60 per cent of the global population still washes their clothes by hand, a burden that falls overwhelmingly on women and girls

16/08/2025

This is an inspiration that is so timely: Wool fibre can take a lot of water to wash properly adding to environmental pollution. Woolfibre is also a passport to community well being, especially after trauma. Now imagine both put together constructively by using the dirty water for wool washing first and then that feeding the ground. I just love the simplicity of the design and concept. Where can I get one to trial it?! 💕🔗

Some 60 per cent of the global population still washes their clothes by hand, a burden that falls overwhelmingly on women and girls

14/08/2025

26/07/2025

Wonderful work

Claudia Alarcón is an indigenous textile artist from the La Puntana community of Wichí people of northern Salta, Argentina. Alongside her own artistic practice, she leads the Silät collective, an organisation of over one hundred women weavers of different generations from the Alto la Sierra and La Puntana Wichí communities.

Weaving in Wichí communities is a female-led, communal and ancestral practice that is passed down through generations. For centuries, thread from the local chaguar plant has been spun to create bags like the ones pictured and fishing nets. Since 2015, with curator Andrei Fernández's support, large-scale works depicting geometric forms with different messages and symbols, like the ones currently shown in the First Floor gallery, have been created.

‘The geometric shapes we make in the fabric have meanings; each one is a message. Some shapes reference birds, footprints, cat’s eyes, our landscape. In the images we recall our ancestors and see that they are still part of us.’ – Claudia Alarcón

You can see Claudia Alarcón & Silät, Tayhin, until Sunday 14 September.

Learn more and plan your visit: https://www.dlwp.com/exhibition/claudia-alarcon-silat/

Exhibition supported by Cecilia Brunson Projects.

📷Phoebe Wingrove

26/07/2025