Statement
In my approach to art, I am continuously influenced by the relationship between craft and contemporary art. In particular, I am interested in the subversive use of women’s traditional domestic crafts. These concerns are realised within my work through the mediums of print and craft techniques, including knitting and embroidery.
Solo Exhibition Statement: Getting By
Using a pink teddy bear to emulate my internal self, I document the challenges of living with bilateral hearing loss. By combining printmaking and knitting, an idea of self is constructed that exposes the inner repetitiveness of the realm of memory.
MA Degree Show Statement: Family Yarns - Knitting an Identity
In today's economic climate, domestic crafts have a renewed value. Interested in the subversive use of these crafts, I am using my own hand-knitting to explore the culture of knitting. Looking at the tradition of hand-knitting within my family, notions of personal, political and national identity emerge. The knitting rhyme "Into bed, cover your head, up in the morning, and off to school" connects the three areas of culture examined in this body of work. The three areas are: the idea of knitting for profit in a rural setting; the relationship between mother and child that develops through knitted items; and the nostalgic quality of the historical documentation of rural knitting. In both printmaking and knitting, I have become aware of my preoccupation with the obsessive, repetitive and time-consuming elements of the work.
Solo Exhibition Statement: Getting By
Using a pink teddy bear to emulate my internal self, I document the challenges of living with bilateral hearing loss. By combining printmaking and knitting, an idea of self is constructed that exposes the inner repetitiveness of the realm of memory.
MA Degree Show Statement: Family Yarns - Knitting an Identity
In today's economic climate, domestic crafts have a renewed value. Interested in the subversive use of these crafts, I am using my own hand-knitting to explore the culture of knitting. Looking at the tradition of hand-knitting within my family, notions of personal, political and national identity emerge. The knitting rhyme "Into bed, cover your head, up in the morning, and off to school" connects the three areas of culture examined in this body of work. The three areas are: the idea of knitting for profit in a rural setting; the relationship between mother and child that develops through knitted items; and the nostalgic quality of the historical documentation of rural knitting. In both printmaking and knitting, I have become aware of my preoccupation with the obsessive, repetitive and time-consuming elements of the work.