My work in textiles, mixed media, embroidery, and sculpture explores inner landscapes and how they shape our sense of home and our environment. I create tactile, layered, and three-dimensional works that encapsulate and express physical and emotional elements, inside out and outside in.
As an architect the study of volume and geometry is embedded in my practice. Repurposed, discarded materials, their energy, vibrations, and history are my preferred resources. I draw inspiration from the essence of what is considered waste, and my process includes a lot of experimentation and is slow and meditative.
I work with different media: paper, metal, plaster, stitched and hand dyed textiles, wax and clay. My personal projects have been an exploration of the boundaries between sculpture, drawing, geometry and the natural world.
I am inspired by Isamu Noguchi’s search for the essence of materials, Beppe Kessler’s boundless imagination and transformations, and Demitra Thomloudis’s deconstruction of constructed elements.
Stargazer, stitched and seared maple veneer and painted linen, 12cm diameter folded
Dancers, miscellaneous stitched and folded paper, installation view
Stargazer, necklace, stitched and seared maple veneer and painted linen (reversible), 20cm diameter folded
Storyteller, stitched and folded cotton organdie & vilene, wax and linen, aluminium wire, installation view, 30 x 50 x 30cm
Outside in and inside out, printed cotton organdie coat, folded and stitched, double layer silk dress, printed, hand painted and devore print
Tesselations, reversible belt/scarf/collar, printed, folded and stitched cotton organdie, 30 x 100cm
Body Armour, folded and flattened aluminium and copper wire, 42 x 32 x 7mm
Fields, Ebony and copper, riveted, 9 x 5 x 1cm
Storyteller, stitched & folded vilene and cotton organdie, wax, 30 x 45 x 30cm
Hold me, pine and walnut cut offs, linen and cotton thread, sea glass, 8 x 5 x 1 cm. Photograph by David Monaghan