What a delight it was recently to have been approached by an Eastbourne based artist and researcher whose work has included the exquisite Eastbourne Samplers.
These are “a series of seven textile pieces… snippets quoted from Engel’s letters, either written in Eastbourne or referring to it, are stitched on domestic linen, overlaying a background of texts from the Communist Manifesto in the original German. The works reference the entanglement of the personal and political, the quotidian and polemical in his astute and humorous observations, as pertinent and delightful today as they were were when he wrote them”.
Thank you so much to Solveigh Goett for aproaching Peoples Eastbourne. We look forward to working with you on both a future display of these unique art pieces and also more explainers on this website.
Link to more on Solveigh’s work. Solveigh’s Instagram account.