Bottom Drawer

Subverted post war chest of drawers, hand knitted soft toys.

An installation referencing teenage pregnancy and the media hysteria surrounding it; the historical and social history of dowries and the artless practice of church hall knitting groups.




 
 

Bottom Drawer

(detail)


 

Bottom drawer
 (detail)

 


 Bottom drawer
   (detail)

 

For The Love Of God

Stinging nettle yarn, vintage bone     knitting  needles. (Diptych)

Vintage childrens' knitting patterns recreated in yarn traditionally used for Nazi Officers uniforms illicit horror and sentimentality in equal measures. The use of stinging nettles as an art material reference penitence and self harm.


 

For The Love Of God

Stinging nettle yarn, vintage bone knitting needles. (Diptych)

 

For Your Own Good
Knitted electrical wire

In reference to women's incarceration in asylums and the tortuous use of ECT. A Child's bonnet hand knitted painfully in copper wire stripped from a domestic appliance; "Feeder" sits jewel like and menacing.



 

 For Your Own Good

   (Detail)
 

Feeder
Porcelain

A row of cast porcelain sipper cups sits sentinel to the modern phenomena of over-caring and death through obesity. Altruistic foreign policy and Christian missionaries unwittingly contribute to infant mortality.



 

 

Feeder(detail)

 

Burnt Offerings
Toast.

Burnt toast pieces cut in a crochet pattern baby blanket as a memorial to hours sacrificed in the kitchen feeding children.