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Events and News 

International Upcycling  Festival 2024 11-12th April at De Montfort University UK

workshop ,talk . Short film exhibited  and  Sky Lantern ‘Eat me burn me’ made from agricultural upcycled textiles by Sally Gaukrodger-Cowan: ‘Eat me Burn me’ is a lantern made entirely from upcycled Agricultural textile waste. ‘Eat me Burn me’ was created to raise awareness of the danger of sky lanterns to the wellbeing of the countryside and the fire risk to crops.Day 2 exhibition @LCB – International Upcycling Festival 2024 (dmu.ac.uk)

Sustainability Rox -T-Extinction Collective Leicester warming stripes installation  2024 (The Venue Leicester)

IFFTI Conference New Zealand 2023

''The ongoing development of the creative communities: past, present and future

British Science Festival 16th September 2022 - Short film on Upcycled Agricultural Textiles artwork  showing at LCB Depot Leicester  at The Upcycling station  event  run by De Montfort University lecturer and artist, Mary O’Neill, and her students to create beautiful art pieces and meaningful artefacts from old textiles and everyday wastes. 

IFFTI Conference  'Reimagined' Nottingham Trent University 6th -7th July 2022  T-Extinction: 'A co-created Fashion and Textiles sustainability awareness project that takes a long-time approach' 

Upcycled Agricultural Textiles Installation images at ISKCON Leicester as part of Upcycling Exhibition organised by LCB Depot  as part of Design week   from 18th -30th October2021

T-Extinction  work exhibiting as part of  a collaboration of students and staff  from De Montfort University  at 72 Church gate  Venue  at Beta X   part of Leicester High Street Heritage Action Zone 

Exhibition of Abstract   Trovid Art work   in  'The Atrium'  at Leicester Gallery  DMU watch this space 

HEA Conference  Advance 'HE’s Sustainability Symposium'  March 21

WOVEN IN PRACTICE Huddersfield University    April  21

Events News 2020

In conversation March 4th 2020 to celebrate 150 years of the DMU Archive  #dmu150

T-Extinction  2021 DMU -Dates TBC

COVID BLOOMS-  My installation /Sculpture   Trovid   appeared in  News No.73 Summer 2020 edition  The Textile Society 

More Trovids to come 

Other 

Fashion and Textiles Art Club  founded 2021- Online  [Instagram  shedlady_destress_dmu_artclub]

T-Extinction Founding Member  at DMU 2019

2023 -24 

The International Upcycling Festival 

 
Sally
Gaukrodger-Cowan
BA Hons FHEA FRSA
Artist
  

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