Stitched Tapestry Project
(2022, 2024 & ongoing)

Acquired, Altered, Addition, Refreshed, Renewed, Repurposed, Reused, Saved, Manipulated, Valued.

This group of works contests the boundaries between Craft, Art and Design. Questioning the labels we give to creative works, significant influences include personal perception, and Place - where it is situated and how it is presented, or rather curated, elevating its status.

There is a dialogue between beauty, commonality and community that lies within domestic craft. This collection of the unfinished and discarded, commercial, hobbyist tapestries started by another’s unknown hand, have changed ownership, been salvaged, given a new life and purpose and, a different audience. Unbeknownst to the original owner they have been found and given value, care and attention from an unlooked-for collaborator with new imagery, different techniques. I wonder, if someone else might come across these works, continue the process developing something which was never meant to be there, in the future.