Wreath Rope (2024)
Mary’s Washing (2024)
Shattered Silk Skies (2023)
Bubble Network (2021)
Wreath Rope
2024
Fibre and Flower sculptural installation for Connections Exhibition (Aug 2024). Curated by Kate O’Neil
Belfast and its rivers are tied up with our fading industrial past of ropeworks and linen mills. Now the synthetic fibres from petrochemicals in fashion, fishing nets and many more industrial products are accumulating on the planet at a rate that is causing irreversible damage. This wreath is a fading memorial to this imperfect past. As it weathers in this outdoor exhibition we are reminded that there is beauty in the shorter life cycle of natural materials.
Materials: 22 meters of braided sisal twine and dried flowers
Mary’s Washing
My Nanny, Mary McIlgorm (neé Polly). Mother. Grandmother. Nurse. Midwife. Matriarch. died in April 2023 on a great day for drying.
Materials: Screen-printed fabric, paper, stitch. 30 x 23 cm.
Shattered Silk Skies
Made for the Process of Coming to Pieces show, Ards Arts Centre, May 2023. Softening something hard and dangerous. Glass only becomes movable when it is broken, this takes that movement even further. Photographic imagery taken from a variety of broken mirrors, windows and windshields encountered across the city.
Material: Digitally Printed Faux Silk.
Bubble Network
Thinking about the delicate networks in foams and gels. Things that are not quite liquid, not quite solid but something in between. Our own ‘household bubble’ and networks came into a new focus under lockdown rules, close contact tracing and social distancing.
Material: Digital Print on Textile
