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Rolling out the carpet for hope
The title refers to a mixed media sculpture in cane, using textile processes create a long carpet of gradual change which relates strongly to global conservation concerns. ‘Rolling out the carpet for hope’ was inspired by the United Nations project to create a green corridor of plants and trees to re-hydrate the desert areas of […]
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Tread Softly
‘Tread Softly’ has a conservation theme reflecting the fragility of the earth. Featherweight feet shapes are placed along a flower footpath of paper fragments, laced together with fine stitching. Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half-light,I would […]
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Change Matters
Recent experiments relate to the presence of plastic along the coastline and especially the impact on sea birds. A series of artworks recycling plastic bottles and polythene bags in response to the pollution of our shores and the harm to sea life.
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Jemila’s Forest
The inspiration for these two mixed media textiles – ‘Jemila’s Forest’ and ‘Rolling out the Carpet of Hope‘ has been the United Nations conservation project to re-hydrate the deserts of the world’s by planting areas of saplings to draw water to the surface aiming to control desert encroachment. https://www.unccd.int/actions/great-green-wall-initiative The shift from desert to fertile […]