projects
my ongoing textile paintings project
In the project, I am attempting to expand the textile plane of the paintings using pre-loom hand crafted technology- including knotting, twining and binding. In building these works, I’m simultaneously developing and expanding new relationships between the contextual possibilities of the inherent languages contained in thread and the construction techniques.
The result is a transformation that stirs up associations while resisting any reductive reading.
skywalk, 2024
acrylic paint, cotton and linen hardwood frame
109 x 109 cm
skywalk is from an ongoing painting project that investigates the materiality of painting while considering connections I’ve observed in the urban landscape between natural forms, architecture and public space. In seeking to express the process of transforming the humble materials, the relationships observed in the landscape unite as structures to reflect light and defend the grid using order and repeated patterns.
The work encourages close inspection and contemplation of landscape in its complex, subtle, multi-layered open surface.
Currently exhibited in the 2024 Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery
skywalk, 2024 side view
acrylic paint, hand knotted cotton and linen hardwood frame
109 x 109 cm
skywalk, 2024 detail
acrylic paint, hand knotted cotton and linen hardwood frame
glimmer, 2022
acrylic paint, hand knotted cotton cord
96.5 x 76.5 cm
This work is an investigation into building a painting by separating the surface plane of cotton and paint.
glimmer, 2022 verso detail
acrylic paint, hand knotted cotton cord
shimmer, 2022
hand woven, hand knotted and bound cord
84 x 104 cm
shimmer is a work that relates to my experience of mapping a landscape I viewed when on a train from Paris to Amsterdam. In the map, I included details I observed travelling from the built environment to rural fields filled with luminous pink tulips. I felt compelled to respond to the shift between the forms and the rhythms I experienced. There's a translation between isolating the details of the experience which activates the abstraction and the process of the physical construction of the textile.
There is a pattern to the structure and texture in the unique and interlocking method which is complex. Built instinctively using many different stitches, the form developed, due to a constant dialogue between myself and the material that changed every day. The taut tension increased, expressed across the surface of the textile contrasting with the cast shadows.
Over the many months of making this work, the act of production became a distilled meditation that connected the woven grid and a new experience of the intense memory of landscape.
shimmer, 2022 detail
hand woven, hand knotted and bound cord