| Saturday 18th September 11am - 5pm |
| Sunday 19th September 11am - 5pm |
Monday 20th till Thursday 23rd 11am - 4pm
Design Incubator, Textile House, Red Doles Lane, Huddersfield HD2 1YF
01484 689501
Textiles
Inspired by the Pennine landscape, the work explores the relationship we have with the natural world, and investigates ways of nurturing that connection, a search for a healing process through keeping in touch with the green. I question our culture of instant gratification our insatiable need for more and the pace at which we are consuming the world’s resources. Once upon a time, we lived in balance with the natural world and we understood the world around us. I use natural materials, especially natural woollen fleece, incorporating found objects and second-hand materials. I use materials that are associated with the place from which my inspiration is derived with traditional craft techniques; these are skills that have been handed down from mother to daughter, I like the feeling of continuity. The making involves a slowing taking time to observe, to walk and work in the countryside, a meditation. Although fragile the things I find when out walking have a capacity to renew themselves, they flower, set seed, wither and die, feeding the earth for the next generation. They are eternal. The fragility is a reminder of the threat to their existence and therefore ours.