2019-20 summary -
My work has previously been mainly textiles based – in particular, print and embroidery. I make work that has elements of the lost, forgotten, or anonymous – I’m interested in the often overlooked, ordinariness of objects and artefacts. Archives and museum collections of textiles have informed much of my work, most recently with Sunny Bank Mills Archive and the demolition of some of the old mill buildings.
Using or incorporating some of the unwanted, redundant bits of materials, machinery, equipment, etc, my work is more mixed media with the surface qualities of materials becoming more interesting to me. I want now to return to exploring and experimenting with materials that have a perceived fragility – paper, porcelain and possibly cloth – using embossing and embedding techniques to alter the surface.
2009-10 summary - As part of the AA2A scheme, I have explored using digital print on cloth with embroidery. The textile archive at Bradford College has provided a rich source of inspiration , beautiful old sample books full of little snippets of treasure . I wanted to work with the original colours of some of the samples , but to greatly enlarge the scale of those pieces. I was able to use digital technology new to me , combining that with handstitched embroidery and applique. It was important to me to retain and include an element of 'craft' , of something worked by hand . I liked the idea of combining the rythms of both the printer as it printed across the cloth and the repetitive action of simple, hand sewn stitches.
2019-20 summary -
My work has previously been mainly textiles based – in particular, print and embroidery. I make work that has elements of the lost, forgotten, or anonymous – I’m interested in the often overlooked, ordinariness of objects and artefacts. Archives and museum collections of textiles have informed much of my work, most recently with Sunny Bank Mills Archive and the demolition of some of the old mill buildings.
Using or incorporating some of the unwanted, redundant bits of materials, machinery, equipment, etc, my work is more mixed media with the surface qualities of materials becoming more interesting to me. I want now to return to exploring and experimenting with materials that have a perceived fragility – paper, porcelain and possibly cloth – using embossing and embedding techniques to alter the surface.
2009-10 summary - As part of the AA2A scheme, I have explored using digital print on cloth with embroidery. The textile archive at Bradford College has provided a rich source of inspiration , beautiful old sample books full of little snippets of treasure . I wanted to work with the original colours of some of the samples , but to greatly enlarge the scale of those pieces. I was able to use digital technology new to me , combining that with handstitched embroidery and applique. It was important to me to retain and include an element of 'craft' , of something worked by hand . I liked the idea of combining the rythms of both the printer as it printed across the cloth and the repetitive action of simple, hand sewn stitches.
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