12/09/2024
The Sailor’s Hat
Appliqued and hand-embroidered with an emblem of a sweet chestnut shell, dried open like a X. Cross stitches hold a band of silk around the head band. Small crosses scatter across a black surface. Worn as a uniform, a costume, a signifier of transformation.
Materials: Linen, Silk, Cotton thread
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To Cross a Threshold
Symbols laid out around a circle. Arrows fading, imprints, traces. Time stood still. The act of scattering, sorting, discarding, arranging, stitching.
What is the meaning of a X?
‘X marks the spot’
to ‘cross’ something out as the eradication of or censoring of something (an identity)
an entrance, an exit, an incision, a spell, a protection, a warning, a kiss.
Materials - Wallpaper lining, oil pastel, quink ink, pine needles, masking tape, invisible thread
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Delighted that these two pieces of my work are on display in our group exhibition Possibilities, Gaps, Overlaps alongside work by my wonderful studio buddies .m.art at .org.uk
open until 26 Sept.
please come and visit!
opening event this Friday 13 Sept at 5.30-7.30pm
informal exhibition talk (date TBC)
more photos to come (this is not an installation photo but a photo taken outside in dappled sunlight)
