Mother Tongue
Artistic responses to my ongoing work exploring circles of making speaking through the 'mother tongue' of women's work and fibre arts.
Allowing myself to be led (2025)
Embroidery
60 x 90 cm
This piece is about human connection. In the initial stages of my work, I consciously returned to valuing and prioritising physical human interactions over the pseudo-social platforms we use online. I allowed myself to be led by each conversation, meeting, event, personal voice note and phone call, following the connecting exchanges wherever they took me. Through this process, I kept returning to the image of a forest and the slow mindful wanderings of a forest bather. The path through a forest is rarely straight and there is always a temptation to deviate and discover hidden delights in the trees. Pink Trees, Horizontal and Vertical were all development pieces towards this larger machine embroidery work. The materials used are all donated and gathered fabric scraps from people I have met and places I have been.
The photograph for this piece was taken while on a walk with a friend through Preston Park, Stockton-on-Tees.
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Vertical (2025)
Embroidery
30 x 22 cm
After completing Pink Trees, I wanted to explore further the impact of changing the directions of threads in my machine embroidery. In my painted works, brushstroke direction and textures created using a palette knife feature heavily to create movement and shape. In these two works, I am exploring how this may be transferred and recreated in the medium of fabric collage and free-motion embroidery.
Horizontal (2025)
Embroidery
30 x 22 cm
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Pink Trees (2025)
Embroidery
19 x 19 cm
I knew I wanted to return to textiles being at the core of my work. The primary focus of my practice through which all other threads of artistic exploration emerged. I begun simply by collaging found images and colour mapping with marker pens. This embroidery is created from an image of what is likely a Japanese maple tree that I found in a magazine. Here I am playing with textures, colours and thread direction, layering different fibres and fabrics.
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