Martin John Bonney

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Stitching Conversations with Martin Boney and Kevin J Birk. An open stitching circle where conversation and making unfol...
19/11/2025

Stitching Conversations with Martin Boney and Kevin J Birk. An open stitching circle where conversation and making unfold together.

Artist and researcher Martin and collaborator Kevin J. Birk for an open stitching circle where conversation and making unfold together. An hour of shared craft, they will explore how the gestures of stitching, making can become a way of thinking, connecting our hands, materials, and stories. Drawing on themes of repair, care, and embodied knowledge, the session invites participants to reflect, share and join in the making and shaping of community, memory, and place. All are welcome to sit, stitch, listen, and contribute to this slow, thoughtful exchange between material practice and conversation.

Mapping the Unspoken100 × 115cm, Silk embroidery on linen, marked with indigo and graphiteStitched in silk on ...
15/11/2025


Mapping the Unspoken
100 × 115cm, Silk embroidery on linen, marked with indigo and graphite
Stitched in silk on linen, marked with indigo and graphite, this work unfolds as a quiet map of encounters. Drawn from time spent with craft practitioners in London and Yogyakarta, it gathers the traces of conversation, gesture, and shared making. Each thread carries fragments of dialogue that resist transcription, a soft record of the relational, the felt, the tacit. Through embroidery, the work translates presence into pattern, turning ethnographic experience into material reflection. It is both document and meditation, a textile of memory where stories, care, and time are held in the slow rhythm of the stitch.

‘Surfaced’, opening Wed 12th November, 6-9pm at Beaconsfield ‘Surfaced’ invites artist-researchers from the RCA’s Scho...
07/11/2025

‘Surfaced’, opening Wed 12th November, 6-9pm at Beaconsfield ‘Surfaced’ invites artist-researchers from the RCA’s School of Arts and Humanities to show their most recent research in the annual PhD exhibition curated by Beaconsfield.
Some researchers are at the end of their journey while others right at the beginning. The works in this
2025 Beaconsfield exhibition have been selected to reveal the processes of surfacing new ideas and materialities in the field of contemporary art and design.
‘Surfaced’ speaks to what arises from the deep thinking and material experimentation of the doctoral research process.
PhD research is required to bring new knowledge to a topic: to surface unspoken truths, share esoteric findings and contribute towards new ways of thinking and doing things.

It’s in the hands of the indigo gods now, last bath. Last day. From graphite darkness to traces trapped by indigo. Let’s...
07/11/2025

It’s in the hands of the indigo gods now, last bath. Last day. From graphite darkness to traces trapped by indigo. Let’s hope the stitches come back to tell a story.

Material responses, a stitched voice that feels amazing to touch.
04/10/2025

Material responses, a stitched voice that feels amazing to touch.

04/10/2025

Materials, situated, slow, relational, making, PhD process.

Making a mess while sitting in the indigo
10/04/2025

Making a mess while sitting in the indigo

Simple ideas being transformed
06/04/2025

Simple ideas being transformed

PhD reflective practice,
20/09/2024

PhD reflective practice,

The fantastic work by Yinka Shonibare cbe. at the Serpentine. Definitely worth viewing. It’s making question textiles an...
09/05/2024

The fantastic work by Yinka Shonibare cbe. at the Serpentine. Definitely worth viewing. It’s making question textiles and futures.

Interconnectedness 2024
02/02/2024

Interconnectedness 2024

Chasma RCA School of Art and Humanities PhD Group Exhibition
20/01/2024

Chasma RCA School of Art and Humanities PhD Group Exhibition

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