Re-Cover
My artwork is the embodiment of a healing process: a journey of mending metaphoric losses and creating my own shields of protection. My work should remind the audience that one can, through simple crafts such as sewing, needlework and crochet find a meditative process to attain fulfilment and emotional wellbeing. The focus is on the repetitiveness of the process of stitching through kelp. As time passes, the organic material changes in appearance. It is this change that I conceptually articulate by the notion of positive change through healing.
Found doll in seaweed. Pencil, ink , bleach and cotton on Fabriano.
Detail of pencil sketch .
Detail of pencil stippling technique
Detail of pencil stippling during sunset.
Broken doll entangled in seaweed
Pencil detail of cotton blocks on doll head
Framed
A mandala of found items. Covered crab paw in cotton yarn.
A mandala of found items. Covered crab paw in cotton yarn.
Cotton yarn, covered crab paw sewn on embroidery cloth
Found crab skeletons on beach
Compilation of crab skeleton paws
Legless skeleton of crab
Mending the sections digitally
Continuous cotton machine stitched drawing on water soluble material
Detail of found objects during my ritual beach walks
Found polluted plastic bottles on beach
Discarded washed-up tyre
Mass of seaweed: I see stings to crochet with!
Detail of Macrocystis angustifolio (bladder kelp)
Painted seaweed pods: Oil on board
Air-drying seaweed strings before I crochet with them
Washed seaweed strings
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