On the Margins:
A series of works inspired by elements of marginality. Being at or on the edge, not quite fitting in, falling into disrepair and decay all these themes being used to create individual pieces in this series.
Created from commercially printed cloth of my own images with some distortions. Surface decoration to enhance the margin theme. Lockdown heightened a sense of being marginal to the world and initially it was seeing families in tower block tiny flats with children that aroused my empathy and awareness of the precariousness of some people's existence. The series explores these elements from a number of angles.
A series of works inspired by elements of marginality. Being at or on the edge, not quite fitting in, falling into disrepair and decay all these themes being used to create individual pieces in this series.
Created from commercially printed cloth of my own images with some distortions. Surface decoration to enhance the margin theme. Lockdown heightened a sense of being marginal to the world and initially it was seeing families in tower block tiny flats with children that aroused my empathy and awareness of the precariousness of some people's existence. The series explores these elements from a number of angles.
Strand Line
Living on an island makes you very aware of reaching those places which are very much on the edge and that place where the sea and the land meet throughs up the detritus we discard.
Pieced from hand dyed and printed fabrics using images of the littoral, with commercial fabric. Backed onto felt, which gives a dimensional stability to the piece. Finaly hand stitched detritus along the strandline.
Living on an island makes you very aware of reaching those places which are very much on the edge and that place where the sea and the land meet throughs up the detritus we discard.
Pieced from hand dyed and printed fabrics using images of the littoral, with commercial fabric. Backed onto felt, which gives a dimensional stability to the piece. Finaly hand stitched detritus along the strandline.
Rural Decay
Here my inspiration was a walk through farming lands. Flat and with water filled ditches, the field margins were littered with abandoned machinery, rusting away, dilapidated sheds being overrun with ivy, broken styles and rusting corrugated iron.
I collected together existing fabrics from my collection and sent the three images below for commercial fabric printing. The construction is entirely abstract seeking to encompass some of the feeling of the place,
The fabric ivy leaves just ramble over the piece.
Here my inspiration was a walk through farming lands. Flat and with water filled ditches, the field margins were littered with abandoned machinery, rusting away, dilapidated sheds being overrun with ivy, broken styles and rusting corrugated iron.
I collected together existing fabrics from my collection and sent the three images below for commercial fabric printing. The construction is entirely abstract seeking to encompass some of the feeling of the place,
The fabric ivy leaves just ramble over the piece.
There are at least three more pieces to come in this series, concentrating on the rising oceans and sinking cities; Displaced persons and Subsistence farming.
Rust Belt
I spent a short while in a flat overlooking the blast Furness in Consett. The whole town was blighted by the pink dust that got everywhere. Further travels in areas where the industry has been closed down brought me to places over shadowed by the remains, rusting away and a legacy of reducing opportunities and an aging population. These are monuments to the first world divesting itself of heavy industry.
I have created an abstract piece inspired by the those memories.
I spent a short while in a flat overlooking the blast Furness in Consett. The whole town was blighted by the pink dust that got everywhere. Further travels in areas where the industry has been closed down brought me to places over shadowed by the remains, rusting away and a legacy of reducing opportunities and an aging population. These are monuments to the first world divesting itself of heavy industry.
I have created an abstract piece inspired by the those memories.
