Lucy Brewer

@lucybrewer.bsky.social

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📚History PhD student - 19thC female gardeners and environmentalists @ Uni of Greenwich 🪡 Instagram: LoopyStitching 🌱Instagram: Lucy_Brewer 👩🏻‍🎓 www.lucy-brewer.com 🥤 https://ko-fi.com/lucybrewer

Image is of a quote which reads 'Some people were always cross when they were hot' - Jane Austen - Emma.
Says “congrats! Your pick to cut the nets down is: Gonzaga”. There’s a bulldog logo in the middle with confetti in the background
Embroidered, beaded, starfish in pink purple and gold with a central white pearl. Sat on a flowery bed spread
Black background with white text that says 'Part-time PhD Exhaustion'
Red hellebore
Book - fourth edition. “Doing visual ethnography” by Sarah Pink. The sociver is a pink textured looking surface.
Mosaic fox
Pack of mushrooms being handed from someone with a red coat and grey jumper to a hand with a dark jumper. In the background is a red wall, a tree without flowers and a rose bush with hips.
Purple and pink embroidered starfish. In the centre is a round white pearl with a gold bead setting around it. There are also 10 areas of gold going from the outside towards the middle. It’s still in a hoop and the backing fabric is a plain calico.
Six apples on a wooden board
Spreadsheet that says Total 806, Done 806, Percentage done 100.00%. It’s set against a yellow background.
Table that shows Total - 806, Done - 806, Percentage Done - 100%
Stained glass, First World War memorial, made by the firm Shrigley and Hunt based in Lancashire. Photo from the following website: https://www.visitstainedglass.uk/artist-page/shrigley-hunt#:~:text=Based%20in%20Lancaster%2C%20the%20firm,previously%20run%20by%20Joseph%20Shrigley.
Book - Victoria’s Secret by Fern Riddell. Cover shows Queen Victoria. There’s a pink bookmark and a sheet of sticky labels accompanying the book.
A quick ink and wash sketch of Three Sisters planting - pumpkins, sweetcorn and beans.
Watercolour painting of a Parisian cage scene on white paper in a black box frame.
Design in white, on a green background says 'Learning is an act of resistance' in the middle is a drawing of a pile of three books, with a bowl on top with three succulents coming out of the top.
Handwritten text saying 'R.N. (net) captain F.'
A small, squareish multicoloured patch on the sleeve of a sage coloured jumper
An ink and wash painting showing a blue Victorian style shop front called Brewer’s art and cheese shop. Outside the shop is loosely drawn produce, two Christmas wreaths a Christmas treee and some plants. There’s a brick wall either side of the shop and a grey pavement showing that we’re on a hill
Ink and wash relaxing golden retriever. He’s wearing glasses and a robe, sitting on an armchair with a bowl of snacks.
Three newly planted brunnera 'Jack Frost' planted into a border in front of a fence. There's a dark purple heuchera in front of them.
ink and wash showing the three sisters - corn, beans, pumpkins
Spreadsheet with a small table saying Total: 806, Done: 326, Percentage Done: 40.45%
Watercolour botanical art showing strawberries in various stages of life
Cover of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Bee having a nap inside the petals of a white rose.
A raclette machine with raclette cheese bubbling on top
Cuchaule bread cut open revealing a bright yellow interior
Cuchaule bread on a wire rack. There’s a red kettle behind and whisk
Copies of Public Opinion newspaper in a plastic wallet and a book in bubble wrap
Spreadsheet showing Total: 806, Done: 227, Percentage Done: 28.16%
Watercolour painting of different stages of a dandelion’s life cycle
University of Greenwich campus
Photograph taken from University of Greenwich campus towards the Isle of Dogs.
Book - “stepping stones to achieving you doctorate” by Vernon Trafford and Shosh Lesham
Calculator showing a total of 4189
A small patch of recently weeded land. There are three rose plants, Angelica, a straggly salvia, a dandelion and some fennel in the background, and a couple of sports mugs at the front. There are also more weeds I still need to get to!
Part completed embroidery that reads learning is an act of resistance done in black thread. There’s are three books in the middle with a potted plant on top. The fabric is purple.
General register of The Horticultural College Stanley
Fitbit that says “Finish. Time 20:02. Steps 1,034”
Shows a small garden with a raised bed in the middle, a hedge at the far end and a large stone wall to the left.
Shows the label for a peach coloured climbing rose called Peach Melba which declares that it was rose of the year 2023.
A graph view of my notes showing dots and connections between them
Shows a book tilted with the paper edges facing the camera, with a lot of post it tabs coming from the book. In the background is a laptop, Milky Way wrapper and some paint brushes.
A copy of Dust by Carolyn Steedman lying on a quilt, with lots of sticky tabs coming out of the side.
Photograph of a book page with the words “for we must seriously consider…the archive as a harbourer of the anthrax infection” underlined.
A hand holding a badge that says Sutton bowmen archery club around the outside on a green background, with a capital S and B in the middle with an arrow in between them, on a white background.
Certificate for Signature Level 1 Award in British Sigh Language for Lucy Brewer (me!)
Book lying on a bed. The book is Mummified, by Angela Stienne. The tagline is “the stories behind Egyptian mummies in museums”.