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White on white hand-embroidery on cotton mounted on board
25 x 60 cm
2023
My practice is predominantly engaged with printmaking and hand-embroidery. Moving between these modalities - one pressing the surface, the other piercing it - I puzzle through the subjects that preoccupy me: loss, the nature of time and the unconscious. Proceeding from these pillars of interest, many strands of enquiry unfold and find shape, resulting in bodies of work that are open-ended. Each body of work is underpinned by one or more literary texts, ranging from psychoanalytic theory to poetry and language itself is often positioned as a subject of exploration.
In the submitted piece titled 'The Artist and the Other' I have extracted a fragment of text from the psychoanalyst Bracha L. Ettinger’s essay 'Art as the Transport-Station of Trauma' and transposed it on to fabric using hand-embroidery. This text(ile) object functions as an homage to Ettinger’s theoretical writing which offers an alternative to the phallocentric, Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalytic paradigm, locating an inherent link between subjectivity, creativity and the feminine. This work reflects on the felt experience of engaging with theoretical language via the process of art-making, a meditation on how these interconnected spheres inform and shape one another. This work also considers the relationship between craft and theory, text and textiles, taking into account the historical privileging of language (the seen, the known) over material (the felt, the intuited).
White on white hand-embroidery on cotton mounted on board
25 x 60 cm
2023
My practice is predominantly engaged with printmaking and hand-embroidery. Moving between these modalities - one pressing the surface, the other piercing it - I puzzle through the subjects that preoccupy me: loss, the nature of time and the unconscious. Proceeding from these pillars of interest, many strands of enquiry unfold and find shape, resulting in bodies of work that are open-ended. Each body of work is underpinned by one or more literary texts, ranging from psychoanalytic theory to poetry and language itself is often positioned as a subject of exploration.
In the submitted piece titled 'The Artist and the Other' I have extracted a fragment of text from the psychoanalyst Bracha L. Ettinger’s essay 'Art as the Transport-Station of Trauma' and transposed it on to fabric using hand-embroidery. This text(ile) object functions as an homage to Ettinger’s theoretical writing which offers an alternative to the phallocentric, Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalytic paradigm, locating an inherent link between subjectivity, creativity and the feminine. This work reflects on the felt experience of engaging with theoretical language via the process of art-making, a meditation on how these interconnected spheres inform and shape one another. This work also considers the relationship between craft and theory, text and textiles, taking into account the historical privileging of language (the seen, the known) over material (the felt, the intuited).