Artist & Facilitator

Threads of the Liberties is a large-scale textile tapestry commissioned by The Liberties Festival 2026, made with residents of the Liberties, using fabric sourced from Change Clothes, a community-based textile reuse hub.

The tapestry acts as a community vision board, with people from different generations and backgrounds adding their stories and perspectives. It symbolises our shared hope for a more sustainable, connected world.

Local residents took part by bringing something of personal meaning from home, sharing the memories behind it, and learning new textile-making skills through hands-on workshops. Each piece carried a story before it arrived here, worn, kept for years, handed down, and through weaving these fragments became part of a single, shared surface tracing the Liberties itself.

Threads of the Liberties was unveiled at the opening of the Liberties Festival on July 20th, in the presence of President Catherine Connolly, who spoke with the artwork as her backdrop.