About

Toni Buckby is a Sheffield based fine artist working with traditional textile techniques, experimental digital/electronics, and acts of collective making. Her work explores ideas of skilled practice, the value of labour, the visibility of authorship, and the creation and accessibility of practical knowledge. 

Specialising in fine hand embroidery, Toni is currently working on a PhD with Sheffield Hallam University and the Victoria & Albert Museum looking at how fine art practice can be used to investigate, reconstruct, interpret, and present fragile and inaccessible Blackwork embroideries. 

Research Website: http://blackworkembroidery.org

Selected Exhibitions and Performances

2021: Interlace, The Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill, Derby.
2018: The Interlace Project, Spon Spun 2018: Re-Invention, Artspace Arcadia Gallery, Coventry.
2017: sampler/sampler_2.0 [in collaboration with Sean Cottrill], Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement, Access Space Labs, Sheffield.
2016: sampler/sampler_1.0 (performance) [in collaboration with Sean Cottrill], Crafting Sound (I), Festival of Algorithmic and Mechanical Movement, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield.
2015: Sonic Pattern Group Performance, Access Space, Sheffield.
2014: Sheffield Hallam MA Show, S1 Gallery, Sheffield.
2013: Shirt (performance), Fear of Fa!ling, Creative Sparks 2013, Hallam University, Sheffield.
2012: Why You So Cold?, Never Mind the Bollocks: Here’s the Art Wankers, Creative Arts Development Space, Sheffield.
2011: S3 7TX and S3 7UD, Occupation: Armed with Needles, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.

Residencies

2016: 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, Barrow-in-Furness (http://www.digitalmedialabs.org/).

Research Projects

2018 – PRESENT: PhD Research Project, “Re-embroidering Blackwork: unpicking the museum collection through contemporary art practice”, a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between Sheffield Hallam University and The Victoria & Albert Museum.
2017 – 2020: The Interlace Project – a D-LAB co-commission with The Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill.

Grants and Bursaries

2017: Making Ways R&D bursary.
2017: a-n Professional Development Bursary (https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/samplersampler).

Publications

Cottrill, S. & Buckby, T. (2016) sampler/sampler: An Interface Exploring Commonality Between Sampling Practices in Digital Music and Blackwork Embroidery, International Conference on Live Coding 2017.

Awards

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

Teaching

2014 – Present: Digital Fabrication, Electronics and Computing – at Access Space, Sheffield.

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