About my work

Crafting Stories Through Thread

Things that underpin my tapestry weaving practice:

• Landscape, both figurative and abstract

• The idea of layers – palimpsest.  The deep memory of places and people.

• Theory (I am an ex-academic – theory building and critical thinking is baked into me).  This includes historical theory, post-modernism, pschyogeography, family history theory, sociologies of gender and place.

• Time and place

My work currently focuses on memory of place – both personal memory and social memory.  I began by exploring the east Lancashire of the cotton industry and as the project develops, I am narrowing it down.  First to the towns of Accrington and Great Harwood, then then just to the area once known as ‘new Accrington’ and finally to a scrap of land where a house called Priest Heys once stood.

More broadly, and less academically, I’ll have a go at anything that takes my fancy and allows me to play with tapestry weaving.  Just before I sat down to type this, I was attempting to spin yarn from old sewing pattern tissue…

Within this this website I aim to share process, experimentation and play alongside more developed projects or ideas.  There will be mistakes and frustrations as well as, hopefully, the odd piece worth looking at.

It isn't all tapestry weaving, but it all covers my areas of interest and learning in visual and written arts

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