Subverting the textile traditions of patchwork and quilting, my work takes this methodology of making as a constructional starting point but thereafter travels in new directions to explore pattern-making in the world we inhabit. For me this ranges from the hidden geological landscape formed over millennia, the artificial interventions evidenced by roads and field systems and, perhaps more prosaically, the objects and arrangements of domestic life.

 I am very interested by the opportunity to work in a much larger scale, for instance using the ‘footprint’ of a room or a road intersection as my guide. I hope to experiment with screen printing and photography to capture images which I then print large-scale, cut and manipulate. By creating a connecting series of large-scale prints I will then be able to join these together to attain the super-large scale I am aspiring to.

 Access to training and equipment will be transformative in terms of my ability to develop my work. From the outset I will use this opportunity to stretch myself and follow new routes of creative exploration (I am interested in how to express non-physical landscapes: human relationships, movement across space and through time). My new work will belong to non-gallery spaces and this will challenge me to collaborate with other people and seek different opportunities to both produce and present this work.