Chornobyl Archive
(in progress)

It is my aim to build an archive of mid-century embroideries from the Chornobyl exclusion zone. Since 2017 I have collected objects and photographs for this purpose to help save the legacy of those evacuated in 1986 and particularly those Babushkas who returned. It is important to me to be able to engage in new research and partnerships in order to collate, catalogue and preserve and share these lost embroideries (artefacts and photographs) through the building and launching of an interactive design website, a living archive, accessible worldwide.

This huge project has become even more important and is highly time critical due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the beginning of 2022, since when there has been a systematic annihilation of the material culture of Ukraine.