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About Madeleine’s work:
Tell us a bit about yourself and your work.
I knit with data, including space images and cellular automata, on a hacked knitting machine that links to my laptop. I make lots of accessories, wall hangings and cushions. I also created Alba ad Astra, the collaborative investigation into the lost Scottish space programme. As well as the core book of the project there are prints, postcards and t-shirts available.
Do you have any new work that you'd like to highlight?
I will have the last ten copies of original Alba ad Astra booklet signed by Ken McLeod and myself. Collecting the rest the authors' signatures is left as an exercise for the reader! I'll also have some prints, t-shirts, bags and cards from my Alien Surfaces and Alba ad Astra collections which haven't been offered before and new knitted work based on NASA photographs and Conway's Game of Life.
What is the biggest inspiration for your work?
Making tactile textiles out of maths and data. Also science fiction, of course!
Where can people go to purchase your work?
Online
Knot Unknot on Folksy https://folksy.com/shops/KnotUnknot/
Knot Unknot on Teemill https://knot-unknot.teemill.com/
Alba ad Astra at Shoreline of Infinity https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/alba-ad-astra-scotlands-forgotten-history-of-space-exploration/
Real life shops
Transreal Fiction, 46 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh
Logan Malloch, 13 Leith Walk, Edinburgh
Ragamuffin, 278 Canongate, Edinburgh
Coburg House Gallery Shop 15 Coburg Street, Edinburgh.