17th July 2013
FIBRE VOICES
The stitched garments and objects I create penetrate the real and the imaginary exploring the issues of stitching and unstitching the self through everyday activity.
When I am making I am absorbed in the activity, working intuitively and guided by the thoughts and revelations that crafting uncovers. I want to discover who I am and why stitch is so important to me. Each object becomes a revelation and a token of memory.
The stitched objects, books and documentation reflect my compulsion to express the relationship between the self and the outside world.
As Artist In Residence at Ysbty Gwynedd I am able to challenge and explore my relationship with my ‘self’ as mother, artist and as a creative facilitator sharing my activity with all who cross my path. My focus will be to ‘unpick’ and document the identities structured by parents, with themselves and their children through the visual language of stitch to create FibreVoices.
We tend to believe that parenting is a wonderful experience but sometimes it is tinged with self- doubt, loss of self-identity and depression. I will hopefully provide, over the coming months documentation and artwork to support my research uncovering the hidden truths of modern life parenting.
During the coming year I will be working within the hospital environment with diverse groups of patients. Maternity ward will be a springboard for ideas and discussion. The outcome will be a large scale ‘breast pad frock’ documenting my research. I will also be facilitating a project on the Transfer Lounge creating a ‘Fibre Blog’ exploring everyday conversation. The Fibre Blog will grow over nine months and hopefully be long enough to swaddle part of the hospital!
In the community I will be working with two groups of new mothers in Llanberis and Blaenau Ffestiniog. Each group would like to create a space for themselves to explore self-identity and relationships with each other through a rich ancestral inheritance.
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