Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way is the collaborative powerhouse of London-based Annabelle Harty and Sheelagh Boyce, who live and work in Glasgow.
Hand-sewn over hundreds of hours, Harty and Boyce's abstract works are the physical manifestation of a long friendship between the pair. Influenced by collected images, travels, ideas and memories, they use old and loved clothes from friends and family and respond, either in intimate detail or through a broader contextual approach, to the architecture of a building, place or the garments themselves.
"We value the wear of the used clothes and the memories and secrets they hold and try to bring these into the narrative of the quilt. A dark square exposed behind an unpicked faded pocket reminds one of the younger garment/person. The crisp shadow, along with the faded pocket help to tell both sides to the garments stories - much like the front and back of the quilts themselves. We work closely together, and have created a mutual way of seeing that works exclusively to neither of us. Glasgow Print Studio seems the perfect space to launch them out into the world to be viewed, in most cases, for the first time in the flesh."
In 2021 Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way exhibited their works at Glasgow Print Studio for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, their first major exhibition in Scotland.
