Category: ** Featured Projects
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Paper Letters
Paper Letters explores the stories we tell in order to make sense of our experiences. These stories become the building blocks of our identity and shape our perceptions of events happening all around us, what psychologists refer to as “narrative identity.” If we wish to meaningfully transform ourselves and the way we see the world,…
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Sick Party
Sick Party explores invisible illness and the ongoing pressure to perform ‘wellness’ in everyday life, while feeling anything but well. The figures in Sick Party are arranged clumsily to resemble a human form, limbs and necks stretched, knotted, and tangled. The smile and eyes are hollow, a facade to hide within. The performance of wellness…
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Body Songs
FlaringNaturally dyed wool, wool naturally dyed with cochineal, wire2022Read More I Can Feel the Sunshine Dance Across My SkinWire, beeswax, wool, organics2022Read More I Can Feel This Time Etched Into My BonesWire, beeswax, cotton, paper2022Read More
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Earth Forms
Earth Forms considers the role of surrender in the journey to seeking peace. Surrender brings to mind being overpowered, conceding. But there is surrender in giving oneself over to natural influences and instincts, rather than striving to meet expectations. Training, conditioning, and externally lead modes of thinking give way to intrinsically lead, instinctual, body focused…
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Growing Forms
Growing Forms, HangingWool, Soil, Living Plants2018Read More Growing Forms, Free StandingWool, soil, living plants2018Read More
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It Washes Over
It Washes Over explores experiences through the objects we hold onto, and how the experiences they represent change us. Using donated items of significance that carry memories, grief, and trauma, I ventured into the inner workings of heartbreak and back again. This exploration of physical and emotional experiences as an unraveling and reworking of self weaves…
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The Process of Closure
I work with objects that break people’s hearts but that they’ve held onto because of sentimental value. I take them apart and transform the materials into a new form. The long processes and labour are like the process of grief or moving on; it takes time and sometimes we want to rush past it. By…
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Structure and Movement
Structure and Movement is a series experimenting with freedom, movement and cooperation. The structure of the weaving allows movements to be amplified and transforms spaces and people. The Wool FishNaturally dyed and handspun wool, linen, paracord2016Read More Movement SeriesHandspun wool and linen2014Read More Movement Puppet 1Cotton and linen2013Read More Movement Puppet 2Handspun wool and linen2013Read…
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Vines Crawl, Body Restrained
Crawl DressCotton/Silk blend dyed with logwood purple, silk piping dyed with madder and black tea, silk organza dyed with logwood purple2013Model: Lizane Tan Vines DressCotton/Silk blend dyed with logwood purple, silk piping dyed with madder and black tea, silk organza dyed with logwood purple2013Model: Pamela Stone Restrained DressCotton/Silk blend dyed with logwood purple, silk piping…
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Queen Mab Hath Been with You
Queen Mab Hath Been with YouCollaboration with Darren Pottie Birth: Hand woven silk, wireDeath: Silk dyed with weak acid dyes, wireTransformation: Silk dyed with weak acid dyes, wire2013 Dreams are moments of unrestrained creativity gleaned from personal experiences. My textiles work in ‘Oh, I See Queen Mab Hath Been With You” aims to represent the…
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Aves
AvesShirts: Naturally dyed delaney wool, naturally dyed silkCapes: Naturally dyed delaney wool and naturally dyed feathers2011
Katrina Craig 