This qualitative practice based project darns previously unheard male British voices to explain the 1980s as a salient decade for embroidery. Bricolage in the arts is characterised by the re-use of diverse materials with which to construct a work, here methodologically it situates artists’ statements on embroidery as a phenomena of socially constructed meanings. By placing them within an asynchronous dialogue between researcher and other men (co-participants) this research seeks to convey sensorial, emotional and intellectual concepts through dialogical embroideries and writings.
The dynamic practice element in this research is designed to avoid concrete findings, and as it integrates the researcher as bricoleur (initially as a scribe and later an embroiderer of findings) it also creates a template with which to splice together the hitherto quieter voices of manbroiderers and my art research practice.
