I currently have work on display at Trocadero Art Space as part of the The Artists Guild group show Giving Form. I had the real, actual flu in the lead up and for the opening week so I’m a little behind the times in advertising it.  Fortunately the exhibition runs until 27 August which overlaps with Sweet FA, the Trocadero Art Space contribution to the Due West Festival. So if you can drop in on the 26th or 27th August you will see both projects.  Now to make work for Sweet FA…

Giving Form exhibition Trocadero 2017

Hand embroidery detail embedded in hair brush

Prints before stitching - This Made Me Think of You

Hand stitching the words into the prints

Gallery installation This Made Me Think of You… (1-6)  2017

My work is a series of photographic prints into which I have stitched words. The work developed from my reflections on the emotional and domestic labor that is predominantly the burden of women (especially historically).  It encompasses both the banal and celebratory aspects of women’s engagement with this labor. 

Reflecting on the exhibition theme Giving Form, the textile objects depicted in my work are the physical form this female labor often historically took and/or was undertaken through. My own stitching gives physical form to the weight of emotional labor and reveals the often unseen/undervalued labor. Its rough execution highlights a generational loss of skills in needlecraft that were hard earned and often undervalued in relation to traditionally male artistic pursuits awarded the honour of high art.