2D Textiles
My work is mostly hand-stitched and built up in layers of fabric and thread, often incorporating drawing or painting. I like to work organically and enjoy employing various techniques for incorporating randomness alongside my creative decision-making.
Much of my work explores my relationship with Aphantasia (an inability to visualise), particularly my experience of SDAM (Severe Deficient Autobiographical Memory), a common symptom, resulting from being unable to revisit past events in the mind’s eye. This artwork probes the difference between what is known to have happened and what is truly remembered.
Off the Record 2024
Portraying an Aphantasic’s memory-loss, with the vibrant present quickly losing detail then disappearing entirely.
Cotton, organza, scrim, beads, net, cord, plastic, thread. 200 x 319cm
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The 90% Beneath 2025
Celebrating the mundane tasks which fill ordinary life and enable our grand plans.
Cotton, synthetic organza, thread. 146 x 102cm
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Tales of the Unexpected 2024
Recording the serendipitous happenings which add a precious spark to life. The hard-to-read reflections suggest how easy these are to forget, especially as an Aphantasic.
Hand-painted cotton, canvas, synthetic organza, thread. 151 x 102cm
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Buried Treasure 2024
Diary of January 24, encoding events by stitching from the back to express how Aphantasics quickly forget their back-story.
Painted canvas, synthetic organza, oil pastel, netting, wool, thread. 240 x 90cm
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Aphantasia 2022
Depicting the symptoms of Aphantasia. My answers to the questions are on the left, but stitched from behind, encoding them, to suggest memory-loss.
Scrim, cotton, organza, thread.
W50 x H68 cm
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Telling the Time 2018
Part of a series based on petroglyphs
Organza; hand-stitched embroidery silks; oil pastel; onto hand-dyed cotton.
61 x 61 cm
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Left Behind 2018
Part of a series based on petroglyphs
Organza; hand-stitched embroidery silks; oil pastels; onto hand-dyed cotton.
76.5 x 76.5cm
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Generations 2018
Part of a series based on petroglyphs
Organza; hand-stitched embroidery silks; oil pastels; onto hand-dyed cotton.
61 x 61cm
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Passing Through 2018
Part of a series based on petroglyphs
Organza; hand-stitched embroidery silks; onto hand-dyed cotton.
56 x 102cm
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Slow Chronical 2018
Part of a series based on petroglyphs
Organza; felting wool; hand-stitched embroidery silks; onto hand-dyed cotton.
102 x 61cm
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Weather in Blue 2017
Organza; wool; embroidery silks; hand-painted cotton.
46 x 46cm
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Tea for One
Raw sheep’s wool; organza; used teabag; hand-stitched embroidery silks; onto tea-dyed cotton.
H25.5 x W45.5 cm
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Ladybower 2017
Organza; embroidery silks; hand-painted cotton.
77.5 x 77.5cm
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Walk from Over Haddon 2017
Cotton, upcycled lace curtain, organza, embroidery silks, collected sheep’s wool
H45.5 x W55.5 cm
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Lanzarote 2017
Portraying the effects of volcanic activity on traditional farming.
Upcycled cotton work trousers; organza; felting wool; embroidery silks; cotton.
H102 x W86.5 cm
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