First Decade Interview with Ann Sutton (OH3)

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Collection

Interviews

Maker

Crafts Council
Ann Sutton

Title

First Decade Interview with Ann Sutton

Made in

Arundel

Date

20/05/2015

Description

Digital sound file of First Decade interview with Ann Sutton, 01:03:42.

Content

In this 2015 First Decade interview, the weaver Ann Sutton (b. 1935) recounts some of her accomplishments and most interesting experiences. The interview begins with Sutton describing her first workshop on a small housing estate in Mollington, Banbury, in 1975–76. She describes how eight housewives, her £5 start-up budget and her own techniques resulted in a fine mohair bedspread commissioned by Harrods and an interview with Kim Evans, then a BBC presenter. Sutton speaks about her early involvement with the Crafts Council, her 1980s P&O ‘craft cruises’ on the SS Uganda, her love affair with Japan and establishing the Arundel Gallery Trail. Always forward-thinking and passionate about technology, she talks about the maker search software Sight Specific, which she developed for the Crafts Council Index of Selected Makers in the late 1960s – way ahead of its time – and the eagerness with which she sees how quickly technologies develop today.

Object number

OH3

Ann Sutton with black and white hanging on the occasion of her First Decade interview. Photograph by Gloria Lin, 2015. © Crafts Council.

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Arundel, West Sussex, location for First Decade interview with Ann Sutton. Photograph by Gloria Lin, 2015. © Crafts Council.

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