Today I met with artist Emily Pitts to discuss a talk she will be giving during this year’s Chorlton Festival. Emily will be giving a talk about Women Artists who use text, at Chorlton Library 7-9pm on Monday 23rd May.
I will provide a few words about my piece for the Festival, so if you are in the neighbourhood do pop along.
I use a variety of materials: wool, digital photography, text and video to paint and draw with, preferring to use simple readily available materials and processes.  My knitted paintings refer explicitly to painting practice, but use wool instead of paint, to blur the boundaries between fine art and craft, and consider how value and worth are assigned to materials and processes.  By deliberately positioning banal, undervalued processes and materials within an art context, I direct the viewer's attention onto the question of how we assign value to art or craft. 
