Baby Bunting
This body of work references the impact of mental health within the family. Using the tradition of knitting as a medium to express maternal care and unconditional love, ‘baby bunting’ figures express this ‘invisible’ illness effecting so many children and young people.
The Botanist’s Sleepwalk
The Botanist’s Sleepwalk aims to capture an emotive response to the darker side of mother nature and the elements. By using Victorian styled night garments, a connection is made to fairy tale moody stormy skies, dark forests and to the gothic notions of death and dreaming.
Knickers Series
Knickers series aims to comment on women’s' gynaecological anatomy celebrating the "inside on the outside". Creating and embellishing a 1940s style pair of big knickers as the vehicle of expression, imparts a familiar and playful twist to the subject matter.
Being Human
An emotive response to a poem by the nineteenth century poet Christina Rossetti 'When I am Dead, my dearest'. By referencing Victorian styled garments, the intention is to draw on the romanticism, sentiment and darker reference to the Pre-Raphaelites’ notions of death and the afterlife.
Beautiful World Where Are You?
Part of the Independents Liverpool Biennial this work comments on the plastics that contaminate our beautiful world. Created from embroidered found beachcombed plastics.
Onion Skin Gloves
‘Onion skin gloves’ are inspired by a fascination for the old English word for onion ‘union’ meaning the many layers of skin that create the whole. Onion skins have been used to hand dye the silk fabric and the decorative embroidered surface hints at the onion’s cell structure. Tiny ribbons tie the gloves together uniting them forever. Femininity is referenced using gloves with their many domestic functions.
Small World
A group exhibition inspired by victorian curiosities. Felted birds from the Corvid family carrying gifts of dreaming and innocence, reminiscent of taxidermy.
Poison Ivy Coat
‘Hedera Venenum - Poison Ivy ‘ Coat, functions as wearable art that explores symbolism and texture. Ivy is a climbing plant and grows to completely cover its host. Historically, it has been regarded as an emblem of fidelity and love because of its clinging nature. It also symbolises fertility in many cultures and it has been a tradition for brides to carry Ivy down the aisle.
A Case History
This interactive art piece was part of an artist in residency. Inspired by collecting research, listening to personal stories and experiences from living in Ormskirk as an evacuee, during WW2. The public were encouraged to engage by creating and decorating small scale items of clothing that could have been packed into an evacuees' suitcase. The textile suitcase's contents exploded onto the floor growing in scale as the weeks progressed.
