Originally posted to @thenewartgallerywalsall Instagram page As well as my relationship to home, another important theme developing in my work is time. The repetitive, slow activity and the resulting collections of granny squares became a physical representation of my time spent. Time spent not only making, but reflecting, remembering, grieving, and healing. The growing stacks of crocheted yarn becoming not just pieces of textiles, but a physical token of real time. Using you

Originally posted to @thenewartgallerywalsall Instagram page On realising the growing relationship that my crochet had to Dad's photographs, I began to consider the significance of where my crochet practice took place - mostly at home, mostly from the sofa, sometimes from bed. Always surrounded by comfortable, familiar security; the nest I'd created for myself. I've always been a homebody, always preferring to stay home than be out. Lockdown living suited me, giving me an exc

Originally posted to @thenewartgallerywalsall Instagram page Two significant things happened in 2021, in the period after losing my dad. This is the second... As we approached the summer, my good friend @sarahzacharek taught me to crochet. Just one pattern - a simple granny square. This one pattern was all I could do but, unusually for me, this was a learning curve that my brain didn't immediately drop once realising I wouldn't be an instant prodigy. Instead, I relished the p

Originally posted to @thenewartgallerywalsall Instagram page Two significant things happened in 2021, in the period after losing my dad. This is the first... Clearing up one day, my mum came across a box in her attic full of old film photographs and their negatives. At first she assumed they'd be more photos of my childhood, and handed them to me. However I quickly realised these weren't photos I'd seen before. These photos had belonged to my dad, and largely depicted a life

Originally posted to @thenewartgallerywalsall Instagram page I adore family photo albums. The way they're displayed, the order curated, the quality of the printed film photographs. In previous work, I poured over the grainy, golden texture of the ones my mum kept of my childhood, examining them and unpicking my memories around growing up between two cultures. I became obsessed by them, using them to create a narrative around my complicated experiences growing up of mixed heri

Originally posted to @thenewartgallerywalsall Instagram page This week I've begun a residency in the Artists’ Studio at The New Art Gallery Walsall. I actually began a Graduate residency here back in March 2020... ending too soon with lockdown. Now I am back for Part II and I’ll be posting here each Friday. It's not a continuation of where I was - my life and my practice have gone through significant change since then - but this round in the Artists’ Studio will see me testi