Crafts CouncilDirectoryMarilyn RathboneVlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award for Most Innovative use of Textiles, 2019AboutI’m delighted that Self-Avoiding Walk won the prize for Most Innovative use of Textiles. A playful response to the conundrum of, “how to make an artwork without making decisions about structure, colour and line?” Pass them on to others. With non-collaborative collaborators, ideas become the decision makers. Thank you: Rocchini and Life of Riley for your mathematical diagram of a self-avoiding walk; Pi, for being our guide; and fashion designer, Julien Macdonald for enthusing about bugle beads.Marilyn RathboneWorthing, EnglandSelf-Avoiding Walk, Marilyn RathbonePi’s numerical sequence leads the way along the walk, each digit represented by a specific colour.Self-Avoiding Walk, photographer Tim Rathboneat the NEC, BirminghamSelf-Avoiding Walk, detail, Marilyn RathboneMaterials: brass curtain rings, silk thread, bugle beads, graphite rod, monofilament illusion cordVlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award for Most Innovative use of Textiles, 2019AboutI’m delighted that Self-Avoiding Walk won the prize for Most Innovative use of Textiles. A playful response to the conundrum of, “how to make an artwork without making decisions about structure, colour and line?” Pass them on to others. With non-collaborative collaborators, ideas become the decision makers. Thank you: Rocchini and Life of Riley for your mathematical diagram of a self-avoiding walk; Pi, for being our guide; and fashion designer, Julien Macdonald for enthusing about bugle beads.Marilyn RathboneWorthing, EnglandSelf-Avoiding Walk, Marilyn RathbonePi’s numerical sequence leads the way along the walk, each digit represented by a specific colour.Self-Avoiding Walk, detail, Marilyn RathboneMaterials: brass curtain rings, silk thread, bugle beads, graphite rod, monofilament illusion cordSelf-Avoiding Walk, photographer Tim Rathboneat the NEC, BirminghamMore from Marilyn RathboneProjectWaterhouse Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 2009ProjectSix Degrees of SeparationProjectEquivalent IXProject100 Metres DashProjectThe British Textile Art Exhibition 62@50, Tokyo, Japan, 2014ProjectBauhaus BraidsProjectPi in the SkyProjectRibbonacci