Red is the colour of…, 2019, site responsive installation at ‘B-Wing’, Shepton Mallet Prison, Sept 21-Oct 6
IN.BRS.2019.39 (Shadow sacks over dark pool), 2019, Scott Sandford and Lou Baker, installed at ‘B-Wing’ at Shepton Mallet Prison, 21.9- 6.10
Pillars of rage, 2019, hand knitted wool, knitting needles
Nobody 3, 2014, hand knitting, installed at ‘Unravelling’, Ice House Studios, London, Oct 2016
Stitch
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, 2018, canvas, stitch
Nobodies, 2014
Nobody 1, 2014, leather, imitation leather, used clothing, velvet, zips; stitch, print
Site responsive installations/ drawings in space
Tethering our thoughts, 2019, string, fruit nets, a site responsive, participatory installation at ‘Incendiary’, Stroud Valley Art Space, Stroud
Safety net, 2018, detail, garden netting, elastic and staples, a site responsive, participatory installation at ‘Refuge: in search of safety’, Fringe Arts Bath, May-June
Participation Interaction Social engagement
Safety net, Day 12, 2018, detail, garden netting, labels, cloth, a site responsive, participatory installation at ‘Refuge: in search of safety’, Fringe Arts Bath, May/June
Comfort/discomfort, Day 27, 2018, elastic, cloth, labels, ceramic labels, a collaboration with Gina Baum, a site responsive, participatory installation at ‘Subversive surfaces’ exhibition, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, June/July
Feedback cell, 2019, garden netting, labels, cloth and thread, installed at ‘B-Wing’, Shepton Mallet Prison, 21.9 - 6.10
Day 1
Day 16
Day 4
Day 6
Day 9
Day 11
Don’t wash your dirty laundry in public, 2016, used clothing, washing line, pegs, body bags
Day 16
Day 16
Day 23
Day 25
Living sculptures, 2018, with a participant, installed at ‘disquiet’, Walcot Chapel, Bath, Sept.
Living sculptures, prison series, 2019, made for ‘B-Wing’ in response to Shepton Mallet Prison, 21.9 – 6.10
Performance
I knit therefore I am, 2018 and ongoing, knitting performance,
Provocation
Shroud, 2013, hand knitted wool
Comfort/discomfort, Day 27, 2018, elastic, cloth, labels, ceramic labels, a collaboration with Gina Baum, a site responsive, participatory installation at ‘Subversive surfaces’ exhibition, Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, June/July
All the babies I might have had, 2011, hand knitted, felted wool
The others; a self portrait, 2015, leather, imitation leather, knitting, knitted felt, felt, velvet, concrete; stitch, print
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois, pictured 1975, wearing her latex sculpture Avenza (1968–69), which became part of Confrontation (1978). Photograph: The Easton Foundation / VEGAP, Madrid
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning, Nue couchĂŠe (Reclining Nude) 1969-70, fabric, ping-pong balls, wool, cardboard
Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski, No man’s land, 2010, used clothing, claw
Chiharu Shiota
Chiharu Shiota, Uncertain journey, 2019, metal frame, red wool
Transformation of materials
Part of me 3, 2018, hand knitted wool, felted
Unexpected materials
Nobody 1, 2014, detail, hair, imitation leather
Pharmacopoeia, 2018, pill packets, staples
Unexpected places
Nobody 5, 2015, installed at ‘Privy’ at The Edwardian Toilets, Bristol, Jan 2016
Unseen, 2018, site responsive installation at Walcot Chapel, Bath, red monofilament, knitting needles
Parts of me, 2018, installed at The Cells at Town Hall Arts, Trowbridge, for Subversive surfaces, June - July
Materials communicate meaning
All the babies I might have had 2, 2015, leather, imitation leather, used clothing, felted knitting, zips
Form, colour, surface and context communicate meaning
Red is the colour of‌, 2019, detail, site responsive installation at B-Wing, Shepton Mallet Prison, 21.9 -6.10
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Other 3, wearing the unwearable, 2015, imitation leather, felt, zip, stitch; performance still