seam collective – Textile Talks: Textiles, sustainability and collaboration
October 3 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm BST
Somerton Parish Rooms + ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset, TA11 7NB
As part of the Warped and Wasted project, seam collective are hosting Textile Talks: Textiles, sustainability and collaboration, a one-day symposium on Friday 3 October 2025, both online and in-person in Somerton. seam invites the public and their peers in the fields of textiles, visual arts and sustainability to join the conversation as they, and invited speakers, discuss issues of textiles and sustainability and add to the critical dialogue around sustainable arts practices locally, nationally and internationally.
The speakers are:
Judith van den Boom, our host, leads the MA in Regenerative Design at Central St. Martins in London and she has been mentoring the Warped and Wasted project. Judith’s talk Warped and Wasted: A Collective Process to Practice Life, explores how we can understand sustainability not as a passive concept, but as an active, living-learning practice.
Paula Orrell, the National Director of CVAN England (Contemporary Visual Arts Network), will speak on the role of the visual arts, including textiles, as vital cultural infrastructure and as a driver of social and economic growth.
Helen Carnac with seam members Lou Baker, Oliver Bliss, Nina Gronw Lewis, Angie Parker and Nicola Turner in-conversation. Helen, an artist and curator who has also been mentoring seam, will lead the in-conversation, asking the members to reflect on the Warped and Wasted project and how it is changing their approach to sustainability in their collaborative and individual practices.
Heath Lowndes, Director of Gallery Climate Coalition, an international membership organisation working to create an environmentally responsible art world.
Read more about the Programme, Speakers and Talks here, and the Warped and Wasted project here.
All talks will be recorded. If you can’t make the date or time, all ticket holders will be sent recordings on 8th October. The recordings can be accessed for two weeks (until 22nd October).
*** To reduce the cost of tickets, lunch is not included in the in-person ticket price. You are welcome to bring a packed lunch or support one of the many lovely local businesses in Somerton.***