Lekazia Turner, embroiderer from Jamaica, 2022

EXHIBITIONS


2009

March
Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
https://www.artdubai.ae/

2010

November
Private event at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/

2011

March
Activist Art. Nominated to speak at event, Arts Arena (in partnership with UNESCO) Paris, France
http://artsarena.org/

2012

March
Premio Valcellina Textiles Award, Maniago, Italy (1st prize)
http://www.premiovalcellina.it/index.pl/it


2013

May
Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
http://www.maeght.com/

2015

May
Rook & Raven Gallery, London, UK
http://www.rookandraven.co.uk/

2020

May
Museo Des Arte Popular, Mexico City, Mexico
https://www.museodeartepopular.com/
November
Zig Zag Building, Glastonbury, Somerset, UK
December
Stories in Yarn, in collaboration with artisan Amanda Wright, Bleddfa Centre. Wales, UK
https://bleddfacentre.org/

2021

October
October
Gallerie Qahili, Pristina, Kosovo
http://galeriaqahili.com/
10th & 12th November
12 - 2pm
Elim Connect Centre, Wells, Somerset, UK
https://www.connect-centre.org.uk/
1st - 3rd December
10am - 5pm
Goddess House, Glastonbury, UK
https://glastonburygoddesshouse.co.uk/


2022

8th - 29th
January 2022
ACE Arts, Somerton, Somerset, UK
https://www.acearts.co.uk/
5th - 26th March 2022
10am - 5pm
National Waterfront Museum, Wales, UK https://museum.wales/swansea/
1st April - 4th Sept 2022
11am - 6pm
The Red Dress will be exhibited as part of the “150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework: Crown to Catwalk” exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London, UK
https://fashiontextilemuseum.org/
6th - 7th September
2022
Traces of Sisterhood, Salon Akademii Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
https://salonakademii.asp.waw.pl
17th - 27th September
2022
Visit FanSina artisans in St Catherine’s, Sinai, Egypt

Exhibtion at CILAS (Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences) and British Embassy, Cairo
http://www.ci-las.org/
https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-embassy-cairo
8th - 9th October
2022
The Melville Centre for the Arts, Wales, UK 
https://melvillecentre.org.uk/
5th - 9th December
2022
The Red Dress will be exhibited as part of ‘SPEAKING OUT’, an exhibtion dedicated to and co-produced by women survivors of conflict-based sexual violence, with the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina.
https://warchildhood.org/speaking-out-exhibition-experiences-of-crsv-survivors-and-children-born-of-war/


2023


Jan 13th - Jan 15th
2023
The Red Dress will be exhibited at ‘The FLINT Festival of Rights (Female, Lesbian, Intersex, Non binary, Trans)’ in collaboration with the WHITE RIBBON ALLIANCE at Lost Horizon Arts Centre, Bristol, UK
Tickets: https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Bristol/Lost-Horizon-HQ/The-FLINT-Festival-of-Rights---Friday-Viewing/36251234/

Jan 23rd - Jan 27th
2023
Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/
Feb 4th -  March 9th
2023
10am - 4pm
Preston Park Musuem, Stockton on Tees, UK
https://prestonparkmuseum.co.uk/


19th - 26th April 
2023
Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne, Germany
http://www.michael-horbach-stiftung.de/home-english.html

3.00pm - 7pm
Sat & Sun 11am - 6pm

Exhibtion created by Contemporary Middle East:
http://www.conmidea.org/the-red-dress/index.html


May 1st - 31st
2023
Tyntesfield National Trust, Bristol, UK  https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/tyntesfield
July 1st – Sept 24th
2023
Southern Vermont Arts Centre, USA
https://www.svac.org/ 
Oct - Jan
2023-2024
Frick Museum Pittsburgh, USA
https://www.thefrickpittsburgh.org/




2024

Feb - May
2024
Fuller Craft Museum, Boston Massachusetts, USA https://fullercraft.org/
4th - 9th July
2024
South African Quilt Festival, South Africa http://www.goodhopequiltersguild.org.za/festival2022/
https://www.saquiltfest2024.co.za/

August - Sept
2024
Pending South Africa

Oct
2024
ACE Arts Somerton, Somerset, UK
https://www.acearts.co.uk/

2025

13th - 16th March
2025
Fashion & Embroidery Show, NEC, Birmingham, UK
https://www.fashionembroidery.co.uk/

April - May 
2025
Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland
https://www.cmwl.pl/public/


June
2025
Pending, UK

July - Aug 
2025
Pending, Sweden

Sept - Dec
2025
Pending, Australia 


2026

Jan - March
2026
Pending, Australia 


OUR SUPPORTERS

A huge thank you to all who have given their time, energy, enthusiasm, advice, experience and financial support to the Red Dress project over the years.

In addition to the institutions below, funding has been gratefully received from a number of private donations and 441 individuals around the world via 2 Crowdfunding campaigns in 2020 and 2022.

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Nothing expresses more eloquently the feelings I suspect we share about the importance of embroidery in our lives, and the support we derive from the friendships made through stitch, than Kirstie Macleod’s Red Dress.
Caroline Zoob, Editor of Stitchers Journal 2022
This beautiful object highlights the common ground between individuals, bringing together different identities and uniting people, we are honoured to contribute to it.
Tiny Kox, PACE President at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg 2023
The Red Dress has become an icon of the international textile world.
Suzanne Smith, Textile Society 2022
The Red Dress in its final incarnation, a magnificent, regal robe, symbolises the empowerment of women through the creation of something beautiful, something which began with bowed heads and tired fingers but also with faith and joy, an openness and willingness to be a part of something which they could not see at that time but in which they could believe had meaning and worth connecting with other women around the world.
Lady Alison Myners, Chair of the Royal Academy Trust 2020
The Red Dress is in some respects similar to Mail Art, the populist artistic movement centred on sending small scale works through the postal service. It initially developed out of the Fluxus movement in the 1950s and 60s – but on a larger scale – the journey of the work is part of its identity, process, and in fact function. A signifier of the temporal and physical nature of the process inherent in the creation of the piece. The surface of the dress layered with embroidery slowly transforming into a specific topographical map – completely particular to the work’s journey – and reflective of the burgeoning sculptural landscape of the object.
Paul Black, Artlyst 2015
It’s her (Kirstie’s) red silk Dupion bodice and voluminous skirt created for the Red Dress that fully demonstrates her commitment to embroidery and the immense respect for the international community of makers.
Denna Jones. Embroidery Magazine 2010
...the fact that they could embroider what they wanted and that it is appreciated has given them some strength, some confidence that I didn’t feel so strongly before they created the embroideries.
Nicole Esselan, Founder of Kisany Africa, supporting artisans in DR CONGO and RWANDA who created embroidery on the Red Dress in 2018
This is both an extraordinary work of collective art and profound and eloquent social commentary. It is also an example of how potent the Attire language is capable of becoming.
Attires Mind (Fashion Blogger) 2020
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