Wall Pieces

Ready Steady Stitch (bobbin lace) #3, 2012
Siobhan Davies Studios architectural plan for staircase, thread & pins on foam
23.5 x 32.5cm

Ready Steady Stitch (bobbin lace) #3, 2012 - detail
Siobhan Davies Studios architectural plan for staircase, thread & pins on foam
23.5 x 32.5cm

Ready Steady Stitch (bobbin lace) #2, 2012
Siobhan Davies Studios architectural plan for staircase, thread & pins on foam
23.5 x 32.5cm

Ready Steady Stitch (bobbin lace) #1, 2012
Siobhan Davies Studios architectural plan for staircase, thread & pins on foam
23.5 x 32.5cm

Ready Steady Stitch (bobbin lace) #4, 2012
Siobhan Davies Studios architectural plan for staircase, thread & pins on foam
23.5 x 32.5cm

Ready Steady Stitch (bobbin lace) are a series of woven pictures using architectural plans, stitching patterns and dance notation as patterns for making bobbin lace. The works were specially designed for Siobhan Davies Studios when exploring the relationship between textiles and dance, making and performance, objects and their recordings.

The stitches used to make up the lace element on the pictures was inspired by the choreography developed by myself and dance artist Laura Glaser for Stairwell Suite, the main piece shown in the exhibition at Siobhan Davies Studios. Three dancers walked up and down the staircase in the building, using its characteristic metal framework as a loom to weave on. The result was a large scale woven installation stretching across three floors of the studio building.

For more information on this piece and the exhibition, click here. See also weave is a dance, stitch / script and lost in translation, all posts on my weeklyweaves blog.

Molecule #1 (bobbin lace), 2009
found image, card, thread, pins, (plastazote) foam

The Dance #1 (bobbin lace), 2009
found image, card, thread, pins, (plastazote) foam

The Dance #2 (bobbin lace), 2009
found image, card, thread, pins, (plastazote) foam

Constellations (bobbin lace), 2009
found image, card, thread, pins, (plastazote) foam

Crosswords #1-2 (bobbin lace), 2009
found image, card, thread, pins, (plastazote) foam

Acupuncture (bobbin lace), 2009
found image, card, thread, pins, (plastazote) foam

Acupuncture (bobbin lace), 2009 - detail
found image, card, thread, pins, (plastazote) foam

A series of works exploring drawing through needlecraft and lace and created for my solo show at the Centre of Recent Drawing in London. The pieces were produced using images from various sources, each coded in their own way, as templates and patterns for making lace, and prompting the viewer to think about the craft of lace making with relation other visual languages in art and other practices.

Sweet Graffiti / Big Bang, 2007
royal icing, sweets, size variable

Sweet Graffiti / Big Bang, 2007

royal icing, sweets, size variable

The main sweet graffiti mural designed for the fresh Paint, the inaugural exhihition at MK galerie’s Berlin gallery in 2007.

The piece is part of a series of works using sugar as a medium for graffiti, initiated in a project at Tate Britain in the same year, and further developed for Cooking and Constructing, a exhibition developed by Platform 21 in Amsterdam. For info on the latter click here.

Sweet Graffiti / Love, Hope and Deceit
(Roses, Almond Flowers and Anemones), 2007 - detail

Sweet Graffiti / Love, Hope and Deceit
(Roses, Almond Flowers and Anemones), 2007

Mural designed for the inaugural exhibition of MKgalerie’s new Berlin gallery space. The sugar ‘tags’ referenced the symbolic Victorian language of flowers, also used as inspiration for the making of a number of sugar and glass sculptures illustrated here on the sculpture pages of the website.

The three circles depict a Venn diagram a filled with sugar flowers making up a love triangle that includes roses for love, almonds for hope and anemones for deceit.

Click here for further visuals and info.

Moribund Mural (Creeper's Delight), 2006
salt dough tiles, size variable

Mural created for the solo exhibition Cake for Me, Bread for the Others at MKgalerie in Rotterdam in 2006. Drawing on baroque and gothic aesthetics, works in the show seduced visitors with visions of opulence, abundance and ornamentation, while also acting as vanitas, bittersweet reminder of death and the darker aspects of human nature.

The mural was made out of baked salt dough tiles. Click here for further images of the installation and the exhibition, press release and review.

Garland #8 (South Hill Park, Bracknell), 2006

Garland #9 (South Hill Park, Bracknell), 2006

Garland #7 (South Hill Park, Bracknell), 2006

Garland #7 (South Hill Park, Bracknell), 2006

Garland #7 (South Hill Park, Bracknell), 2006 - Centro colombo Americano

Garland #13,14 &16, 2007 - Millennium Galleries, Sheffield

A series of interactive installations started at Tate Britain in London in 2005. Participants are engaged in free form weaving, knitting and knotting in a given space and reflect on their relationship to making, craft, and the social dimension of these practices.

The weaving itself, as well as the other participants, are the only resources guiding participants through the making. Each piece thus develops in its own unique and particular way. The resulting woven ‘webs’ are then exhibited as a wall pieces documenting the making and the interaction between participants. Different knots and weaves are revealed each time these works are installed, highlighting the complex and spontaneous nature of the process involved in their making.

Garlands have now been stages at various events and exhibitions including the British Art Week, Tate Gallery (2005); Get Knitted, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield (2008); The Fabric of Myth, Compton Verney (2008); Reaccion en Cadena, Centre Colombo Americano, Bogota (2008); Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution, Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery (and touring), Birmingham (2009).

For more info and visuals, please visit the interactive pages here.

Knitting Piece #9 (Crafts Council, London), 2005

Knitting Piece #4 (Palais de Tokyo, Paris), 2005

Knitting Piece #11 (National Gallery, Prague), 2005

Knitting Piece #14 (Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Burgos), 2006
Knitting Pieces #2-13, 2004/6 (walls)

Knitting Piece #13 (South Hill Park, Bracknell), 2006

An ongoing series of interactive works started at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, in 2004. With each of these pieces visitors are encourage to drop in and contribute to the making of a large knitted loop, sharing circular needles. The emphasis is put on the process of knitting rather than the final product, prompting the participants to assess the social dimension of this craft. The resulting loops are later exhibited as documents and evidence of this social interaction.

Since 2004, Knitting Pieces have now been staged in Berlin, Cologne, London, Prague, Bogota amongst other places. For more info and visuals, please visit the following interactive pages of the website.

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