We Gather Quilt

The We Gather Quilt was created by artist Julius Arthur for an exhibition at Kindred House in Margate. The work explores ideas of collecting, domestic ritual, and memory through the language of making.

Constructed from cotton and linen mordanted with soy milk and overdyed with tea, the quilt reflects on the humble, domestic materials close at hand — a connection to formative acts of making and to childhood processes of experimentation and play. Within the composition, a series of hand-cut, hand-stitched shapes sit across the surface like gathered objects: stones, vessels, fragments, and forms arranged in quiet relation to one another.

This work continues Arthur’s exploration of abstract quilts as containers for memory and place. The gathering of forms mirrors the gathering of materials, each gesture reflecting the intimacy of handling, collecting, and keeping. Through hand quilting, Arthur grounds these reflections in time and touch, creating a piece that holds both personal and universal resonance.

The We Gather Quilt invites a slower reading — a meditation on material, memory, and the rituals that root us within the everyday.