Lynette Willoughby – Artist ….

Tina’s Room   or   A Room of One’s Own

 In 1928 Virginia Woolf investigated what was needed for a woman to be a writer of fiction in “A Room of One’s Own”. In 2004 a room was built for Christina Honeybone, a handloom weaver, as her studio. She died in 2007. As artists who make site specific work, David Honeybone and I put these two events together and created an installation for Roundhay Open Studios. It combines the story of that place with the issues emphasised by Virginia Woolf – a private space, a lockable door and sufficient income – uninterrupted time to think and create.

Everything in the space had a direct connection with the space, the person for whom it was built and Virginia Woolf’s book – yarns ready for weaving, an eclectic collection of  books from classical studies to techniques of weaving, postcards collected over decades, the objects needed for creativity and work we have made in response.

Photos by Maria Spadafora