Richard McVetis

CAVALIERO FINN AT BALLROOM ARTS 152A HIGH STREET, ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK IP15 5AQ UK

8 - 18 JUNE 2023

This exhibition, which coincides with the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk, takes place in Ballroom Arts a beautiful space overlooking the North Sea. Elemental Lines examines how the lines of the landscape are integrated into the mixed media works by over 30 artists who all take inspiration from the natural world around them.

More details at
https://cavalierofinn.com/exhibitions/29-elemental-lines-cavaliero-finn-at-ballroom-arts-152a-high-street/

I'm delighted to be showing at #Collect2023 represented by gallery Ruup & Form.

Ruup & Form, leading contemporary gallery based in London, focussing on material-led artists is delighted to return to Collect International Art Fair with fourteen exceptional artists, all responding to the theme of In Quest for Harmony
The exhibition delves into the many facets of emotional upheavals, political and social turbulences. The artists respond with their personal sense of equilibrium, asking questions through their medium. The theme of harmony is especially relevant in today’s divided world, where perspectives and beliefs often lead to conflict and disharmony.

Into the Night
An exhibition by Cavaliero Finn

18-22 January 2023
Islington Business Design Centre

Richard McVetis at the London Art Fair 2023, with Gallery Cavaliero Finn. In his new series of works, McVetis examines his enduring fascination with process, our connection to material, place, and our intrinsic relationship to the cosmos. In making this work McVetis seeks to connect and regain perspective in world of disorder.

Tickets and more information at https://www.londonartfair.co.uk

5th April - 30th July 2022

UK Solo show at the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham.

We are pleased to announce the first solo show of artist Richard McVetis at the acclaimed Crafts Study
Centre. Richard McVetis: Shaped by time, an exploration of time and space through process and repetition,
brings together a collection of work that includes drawing, sculpture, and textiles.

https://www.csc.uca.ac.uk/programme

For issue 22 of Hole & Corner magazine I was interviewed by Craig McLean.

“The descendant of Lithuanian immigrants turned miners, embroiderer Richard McVetis’s fascinating family history, deeply imbedded in the coal industry, has formed the background and basis of his latest complex and extraordinary work, Coal Seams”

Words by Craig McLean Photographs by Sam Walton

www.holeandcorner.com

APRIL 17th 2021

Join us for a one-day workshop of stitching with textile artist Richard McVetis. In this workshop, you will learn traditional hand embroidery techniques and create your own stitched piece.

The day will begin with a tour of the House, looking at the textiles and embroidery in the collection. You will learn how to work a stitch in different threads and to change its scale and spacing, to combine stitches, to mark-make and draw. The workshop will explore the tenderness, slowness and rhythms of hand stitching.

Practical help will be given and no knowledge of particular and precise embroidery techniques is needed. You will come away with a unique and beautiful stitched piece.

https://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/events/

https://redesign-business.com/

Join Richard McVetis as he explores three different traditional hand embroidery techniques as well as the slowness and rhythms of hand stitching.

ReDesign Business is a new kind of festival of ideas for navigating the challenges ahead where our experts will talk business from a designer's playbook and our workshops will illuminate new ways of road mapping possible futures where design and business meet.

Curated by Propela and made possible by the Design Council, ReDesign Business is a new talks programme set to launch alongside London Design Festival 2020.

Join Richard McVetis for an online embroidery workshop, where he shares his practice which focuses on multidisciplinary themes such as technology, time, and labour. In the workshop, he will show you some basic stitches and introduce you to his practice. He will show the strength and versatility of using embroidery for drawing and mark-making, and the pleasure in taking time to make.

Thursday 30 July 2020 10:00am - 11:30am

For this online masterclass, Richard McVetis has drawn on his love of stitching, paying attention to time and labour, while exploring the process in conversation with fellow artist Celia Pym.

POSTPONED

The 62 Group of Textile Artists presents The Skill of Narrative & Stitched Textiles, the third talk in their popular annual lecture series at the Fashion and Textile Museum. This lecture will introduce 62 Group members Emily Jo Gibbs and Richard McVetis and their respective projects The Value of Making and The Potential of Stitch.

https://www.ftmlondon.org

16.08-12.10.2019 Make Hauser & Wirth

Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset is delighted to present ‘David Gates: in dialogue’, an exploration of containment, materiality, and the desire to collect, assemble, order and display. David Gates combines studio-furniture making with formal research, creating three-dimensional pieces inspired by cabinet furniture.

In recent work Gates has focussed on the cabinet of curiosities, the collecting cabinet as an interface between furniture, people, architecture, and material culture. In keeping with this theme, Jacqueline Moore, the Director of Make Hauser & Wirth Somerset, together with David Gates have invited a selection of international artist-makers to submit works for display around the cabinets. Responses include objects in ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery, metal and mixed media, which invite investigation into the spaces they occupy, as well as the materials they employ.
Collaborators include: Andrea Walsh, Derek Wilson, Helen Carnac, Harry Morgan, Ismini Samanidou, Katie Spragg, Mr Smith, Mark Reddy, Matthew Day Jackson, Neil Brownsword, Paul Adie, Romilly Saumarez Smith, Richard McVetis, Rosa Nguyen and James Shaw.

20.07-15.08.2019 Sunny Bank Mills, Farlsey.

Richard is currently showing 'Landscape' in the latest exhibition by The 62 Group of Textile Artists. The 62 Group of Textile Artists are an artist-led organisation with an international membership challenging the boundaries of contemporary textile practice.

In this exhibition members build and assemble ambitious and innovative textile works responding to the theme ‘CONSTRUCT’

CONSTRUCT. 1 to put together substances or parts systematically; build; assemble. 2 to frame
mentally (an argument, sentence etc.). 3 Geom. to draw (a line, angle, or figure) so that certain
requirements are satisfied. 4 something formulated or built systematically. 5 a complex idea
resulting from a synthesis of simpler ideas.
Members are open to submit works that respond to the theme of CONSTRUCT

Richard was invited to run a masterclass at the UCL Institute of Making. For this workshop McVetis drew on his love of stitching, paying attention to time, labour and care to develop a day of stitching. The workshop explore a combination of traditional hand embroidery techniques, taking inspiration from the textures and patterns found in the Institute of Making materials library. Participants explores the slowness and rhythms of hand stitching; the versatility and strengths of embroidery for drawing and mark making; and the pleasure in having time to make.


This workshop is part of the Festival of Stuff.

As a shortlisted artist in the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2016, I was invited to run a practical drop-in drawing project at the Jerwood Space London. This project was part of The STEAM Powered Big Draw Festival.

In my workshop, ‘The Drawn Thread’, I worked with participants to explore the enormous scope and versatility of drawing through stitch. Creating textures and patterns by working a stitch in different threads, playing with scale and spacing, and combining mark-making techniques. The workshop encouraged an experimental approach to stitch that drew on the imagination of each participant.
Image: Hydar Dewachi