Gathering Dust (Fluff)

• 2023
• Textile and mixed media work
• 20cm H x 16cm W
• Unique Art Work
• Certificate of Authenticity

Created for Elise Cakebread's Show Gathering Dust at Linden New Art 2023.

Artist's Statement:

Gathering Dust (Fluff) engages in the act of making, re-making and reassembling elements, emphasising their rich histories, sentiment and potential for transformation.

The work is created almost wholly from domestic waste – post consumer garments, yarn, wire, fibres, ribbon, packaging materials, cushion stuffing, fragments of 21st century household detritus. Those materials have been de-constructed and re-interpreted using techniques grounded in my textile practice – coiling, spinning, felting, shredding, carding quilting and embroidery.

Revelling in the gesture and intention of each stitch I explore the aesthetics of abstraction; elevating the materials and seeking to take abstraction to its conclusion – the abstraction of materiality.