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Crafts CouncilDirectoryMarilyn Rathbone

Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award for Most Innovative use of Textiles, 2019

I’m delighted that Self-Avoiding Walk won the prize for Most Innovative use of Textiles. A playful response to the conundrum of, “how to make an artwork without making decisions about structure, colour and line?” Pass them on to others. With non-collaborative collaborators, ideas become the decision makers. Thank you: Rocchini and Life of Riley for your mathematical diagram of a self-avoiding walk; Pi, for being our guide; and fashion designer, Julien Macdonald for enthusing about bugle beads.

Marilyn Rathbone

Worthing, England


Self-Avoiding Walk, Marilyn Rathbone

Pi’s numerical sequence leads the way along the walk, each digit represented by a specific colour.


Self-Avoiding Walk, photographer Tim Rathbone

at the NEC, Birmingham


Self-Avoiding Walk, detail, Marilyn Rathbone

Materials: brass curtain rings, silk thread, bugle beads, graphite rod, monofilament illusion cord

Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award for Most Innovative use of Textiles, 2019

I’m delighted that Self-Avoiding Walk won the prize for Most Innovative use of Textiles. A playful response to the conundrum of, “how to make an artwork without making decisions about structure, colour and line?” Pass them on to others. With non-collaborative collaborators, ideas become the decision makers. Thank you: Rocchini and Life of Riley for your mathematical diagram of a self-avoiding walk; Pi, for being our guide; and fashion designer, Julien Macdonald for enthusing about bugle beads.

Marilyn Rathbone

Worthing, England


Self-Avoiding Walk, Marilyn Rathbone

Pi’s numerical sequence leads the way along the walk, each digit represented by a specific colour.


Self-Avoiding Walk, detail, Marilyn Rathbone

Materials: brass curtain rings, silk thread, bugle beads, graphite rod, monofilament illusion cord


Self-Avoiding Walk, photographer Tim Rathbone

at the NEC, Birmingham

More from Marilyn Rathbone

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    The British Textile Art Exhibition 62@50, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

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    Bauhaus Braids

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    Pi in the Sky

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