Toni Buckby is an artist working with textiles and interactive media, focusing on the intersection between traditional craft techniques, heritage and digital technologies.
Her work explores the process of making, the mathematics of pattern and the creation of complex structures through simple components.
She specialises in the hand embroidery technique of Blackwork, runs workshops on digital fabrication and spends most of her time attempting to get impractical ideas to function.

Since completing my MA in 2014 I have been working on long term projects, research and collaborations. Details of my current work can been seen on my Studio Blog page.

Selected Exhibitions and Performances

2016: Crafting Sound (I), AlgoMech – Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

2014: MA Show 2014, Hallam University, Sheffield

2014: Process, Cuploa Contempoary Art, Sheffield

2013: Wirksworth Festival, Wirksworth, Derbyshire

2013: Fear of Fa!ling @ Creative Sparks 2013, Hallam University, Sheffield

2013: You Are Here: A Sheffield Exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield

2012: Never Mind the Bollocks: Here’s the Art Wankers , Creative Arts Development Space, Sheffield

2011: Occupation: Armed with Needles, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield

Residencies and Projects 

2017:  sampler/sampler – A collaborative project exploring commonality between sampling practices in digital music and blackwork embroidery – supported by a Professional Development Bursary from a-n The Artist Information Company (https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/samplersampler)

2016: AlgoMech: Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement Residency, Access Space, Sheffield (http://algomech.com/2016/)

2015: Sonic Pattern Group Residency, Access Space, Sheffield (https://inhabitingthehack.github.io/2015/11/18/sonic-pattern-residency/)

2015: Digital Media Labs Residency, Barrow-in-Furness (http://www.digitalmedialabs.org/)

Awards

Why you so cold? – Music Video of the Year 2012, ArtRocker Magazine