Lyn Barlow

Lyn Barlow is a textile artist living in Williton, West Somerset. Her main body of work draws on shared experiences, social and cultural history and the personal as political. She considers herself a proponent of the ever-growing Craftivism movement. Her work has featured at East Quay, Watchet alongside Grayson Perry, and is currently part of Social Fabric, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance. She is involved with a number of community and grass roots craft groups and initiatives. 

Lyn Barlow was a protestor at Greenham Common’s peace camp from 193 to 1987, worked as a researcher for the New Statesman for a year, before studying at New Hall College (now Murray Edwards), Cambridge University before moving to the West Country.

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