Earlier Works (pre 2020)

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2019 The Bowes Museum

A collection of works was made to commission for The Bowes Museum Autumn 2019 in response to their collections and is underpinned by the notions of loss, obsolescence and dispossession. Methodology focuses on the experimentation and the exploration of new ideas, the investment of time and the importance of archives. Accessibility and ownership is questioned as is the future of our heritage and craft legacy. The pieces hold a narrative of the ‘unfinished’, where there is beauty in the incomplete.

Installation 1: Unfinished (Homage to the unknown lace maker)

Inspiration: Bowes Lace archives; including Blackbourne Collection & Poor Clare’s

Embroidery collections

Description: Legacy, importance of the new, loss of the old, commentary on the modern world. Beauty of the ‘unfinished’

Dimensions: 59cm x 85cm (A1)

Technique: Hand Embroidery, construction

Medium: Textiles - Found unfinished lace piece, antique bobbins, fishing floats, vintage & new embroidery threads, glass beads.

Installation 2: Disintegration

Description: A response to the loss/deterioration of craftsmanship/traditional craft, with the use of contemporary methods & technology

Inspiration: Bowes Lace archives; including Blackbourne Collection

Dimensions: 36cms x 200cms

Technique: Digital design, Laser cutting, construction

Medium: Antique lace pillow, paper & emulsion, insect pins

Installation 3: Shadow Play

Description: Domesticity, glitches, process, sampling, generating of new ideas, paper lace length

Inspiration: Bowes Lace archives; including Blackbourne Collection

Dimensions: 70cms x 300cm

Technique: Digital design, Laser cutting, screen printing, stitch

Medium: Lining paper & emulsion, cotton thread.