My work spans a number of different media including collage,
mixed media, textiles and drawing. I am currently developing a number of issue-driven
pieces looking at the power of money, while appreciating the beauty of the bank
note.
Using the form of the suit jacket as a canvas I am looking
at different sections of the garment, dissecting it so that each part of it
means a different thing. I am also using audience participation in my work, as
money is something that connects us all and we all have different experiences
with it. I want to explore how something which is so fragile and easily damaged
can have such a strong hold over us in our everyday lives.
I wanted to use stitch because it has always been
stereotypically regarded as women’s work and yet to me the suit is very
masculine. I wanted to challenge this by reincorporating hand embroidery but
give it a contemporary twist by stitching into printed bank notes instead of
fabric.
