Lets Get Weaving!
A large part of my work involves using hand knitting, because of its historical associations with gender. I am currently working on a group of new pieces. These will begin as drawings and observations, of buildings, my environment and from magazines and TV.
I want to record my process here, from initial drawings and test pieces. I welcome your comments, constructive please!
When I was young we had a family saying: Lets Get Weaving! Used when we had done enough talking and prevaricating and needed to get down to some work. There is always a point when I have to fix on a piece to make, rather than just cutting things up and sticking then in my sketchbook, when thought turns to action. This blog is a half way house – a liminal space if you will. Well that’s my aim, we shall see.
I like to build up layers of meaning in the work, by the references it makes to other artists’ practice and by pushing the images through various processes and stages so they are barely recognisable. This may take the form of knitting patterns transformed into concrete poems, or the use of digital manipulating in my camera or in the computer.
