Recent Work

My recent work has seen me expand my material experiments with thread to include installation, sculpture and wall drawing. I am exploring themes relating to the historicity of societal power dynamics as they relate to the body through bringing found and created objects into conversation with with each other and with the built structure. Responding to the built environment, I am combining textile techniques with medical and construction materials and found objects. Some of the artworks are transitory and will change with each iteration and space.

Sappho’s Hipbone

Mixed Media installation

This mixed media wall drawing is created from a range of textile drawing practices. I bring apparently disparate fragments into conversation with each other and with the built structure of the wall as a way of exploring personal experience and feminist themes in relation the writings and ideas of prominent American trans-diciplinary feminist philosopher Donna Haraway. The work is site specific, adapting and evolving in every iteration according to the evolution of my ideas and to its environment. Some elements that appear in this iteration include: fragments of poetry by 6thC BCE Greek poet Sappho; freehand machine embroidered anatomical drawings of hipbones; recycled and eco-dyed fabrics; preloved table linen, floor sweepings; and wall stitching.

Pockets 1

Plaster and floor sweepings, thread, fabric, scraps. Cast in pockets.

Residue. Calcified remains. Precious things that we might pick up and keep. Fossilised memories of what is now past or absent but also what might yet be. Unmentionable things not yet brought to light. They are also the beginning.

Untitled Installation (Scapulae)

Medium: found rat cage, eco-dyed fabrics, found crochet & lace doilies, embroidered thread anatomical drawings, tulle, scrap fabric, pins, wire.

This installation explores the themes of control and transitions as they relate to bodies and knowledge.