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An opening

I am thrilled to receive a Professional Development Bursary from a-n. The funding will enable me to learn new practical skills working with textiles in order to research and test new formats of showing photographic images. My practice considers our […]

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Shifting States

Supported by an A-N Professional Development Bursary. Learning new skills with textiles incorporating photography and found natural objects

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Itchiness and Comfort

AUDIOBLOG – Please click here In preparation for writing a proposal including an explanation of my work, I am reading “Stuff” by Daniel Miller, and “Material Memories”by Marius Kwint et al. Reading of the latter has again brought me to […]

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Fifty Ways to Leave Your Mother: Repositioning Loss.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. Robert Browning In the month between my mother’s death in November and her funeral in December, delayed because of a backed up, (their words) crematorium, I existed in a state of limbo and […]

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Print work

My project for this year is revolving around the issues surrounding gender equality, focusing on Emma Watson’s UN speech on the subject. By issues, I mean the fact that women and men are expected to have completely different personas because society […]

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End of the summer

In the last couple of weeks I’ve been back in West London working on the textiles project, and the group have produced some wonderful work. On the last day everyone brought cakes and sweets to share from all over the world (well […]

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Final Project work

The work for my final project is taking shape in the form of paintings/Stitch and a mixture of the two.One of the pieces I am currently working on is a vintage army jacket and according to research is probably a […]

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Agnes Ricter’s Jacket

During the Victorian era in Germany,an ex-seamstress and an inmate in an asylum,Agnes Ricter stitched into virtually every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform.Agnes’s embroidered writing was so profuse that much of the text was hard […]

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Suffering for my Art – again

 AUDIOBLOG – Please click here A couple of years ago I nearly killed myself having allergic reaction to the wool fibres of the ww2 army greatcoat I was cleaning up ready to work on for “Colonize”. I dived in, brushing […]

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A Textile one off

Yesterday, I had to decide whether to go to the studio, or to do a pile of washing and cut the grass. It was really hot, I had a stack of stuff to do and my next day off (apart […]

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PERCEPT

So as my last post hinted, we recently launched our first show in the new space. Examines materiality and the affect different materials and stimuli can have on our senses, whether this be positive or negative. It features the work […]

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