Community & social practice · Nieuw Bethesda

Struggle in Peace

Product development with the ‘Struggle in Peace’ embroidery group in Nieuw Bethesda — hand-stitched felt pieces based on the sculptures of the Owl House.

Struggle in Peace
The ‘Struggle in Peace’ embroidery group in Nieuw Bethesda, with the felt fish and figures they developed.

Celia de Villiers worked with the ‘Struggle in Peace’ embroidery group in Nieuw Bethesda — the Karoo village of Helen Martins’ Owl House — on product development, translating the forms of the Owl House sculptures into hand-stitched, felted fish, owls and figures.

It belongs to her wider community and craft-development practice, alongside collaborations such as the Intuthuko collective near Johannesburg.

 
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