Memory work 3

LR's children (2012/13)

LR's child 1 (2012)
Materials: hand-me-down wool/polyester mixtureDimensions: 41 cm x 31 cm

LR’s boy (2012)
Materials: hand-me-down wool/polyester mixture
Dimensions: jumper 29 cm x 15 cm, pants 16 cm x 13 cm

LR’s child 3 (2013)
Materials: crocheted from hand-me-down wool/polyester mixture
Dimensions: 22 cm x 26.5 cm

LR’s child 4 (2013)
Dimensions: 19 cm x 27.5 cm
Materials: crocheted from hand-me-down wool/polyester mixture

LR’s children (2012/13)

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Memory work 2

Soldier's child (2013)
Dimensions: 66.5 cm x 39.5 cm
Materials: crocheted from wool/polyester yarn

I seem to have moved away from producing a single object and have become fascinated with exploring series, groupings, families of artworks, tracing relationships, shared qualities, differences.

Memory work 1

Veteran's girl (2013)
 Dimensions: 45 cm x 26 cm

Materials: crocheted from wool/polyester yarn

Most of my work over the last few years has been concerned with childhood memory, its shifting grounds, fictions, inflections. I’m becoming more interested in what we can’t concretely remember, because it is not part of our experience, but are affected by: inherited memory. How we are embedded in time, history, through the accident of when and were we are born, but more specifically through our family history. When does a person’s past start? Is there ever a point at which we have no past?

Back with foundlings in tow

Foundlings

Material: Crocheted from cotton-thread

Foundling1

Dimensions: 24 cm x 28 cm

Foundling2

Dimensions: 24 cm x 27.5 cm

Foundling3

Dimensions: 22.5 cm x 27 cm

Foundling4

Dimensions: 23.5 cm x 40 cm

Foundling5

Dimensions: 22 cm x 39.5 cm

Foundling6

Dimensions: 19.5 cm x 30 cm

Foundling7

Dimensions: 18.5 cm x 27.5 cm

Although I enjoy blogging as part of Artists Talking I've missed posting here, partly because over the years (on-line) relationships developed that I don't want to leave behind, partly because this is accessible to a much wider audience and leads to encounters beyond all kinds of borders. And the image size allows a much better/closer view of the work. I'll be trying to maintain both blogs for a while, see how it goes what with not having amazing amounts of energy at my disposal. Expect duplications!
Have proposed a little pact to my bbf Mien of Redredday who is also thinking about going back to blogging, along the lines of I will if you will. Well - I have, Mien. PLEASE come out and play.
Thought I'll introduce you to my foundlings, inspired by a visit to the Foundlings Museum a couple of years ago.

No more titbits!

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And: 
Miranda Vane‘s piece about my work, written after her art-visit at my studio-home has been published on rookie creative. Thank you, Miranda!

Titbit 13

... Another pleasure was to be contacted by Brick Lane Gallery – it was gratifying to be found through axis-web, have my crochet work complimented on and found good enough for a solo-show, but it’s an offer I had to refuse although I’m endlessly anxious about not exhibiting. I don’t have the dosh, not even £ 500,- for part of a curated group-show, no matter what professional services are included. Something else will come along, won’t it? ...

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Titbit 12

preliminary sketches for my foundlings (there are loads)

... Some nights ago when I couldn’t sleep I longed to creep into the garden and howl at the full moon, but my limbs were heavy with fatigue and the bed warm and while I lay immobile my foundlings woke up and made a din in my head: make us, make us, make us… Time to go back to them. It’s too easy to fall from one idea to the next when my brain revels rollicks ruminates rouses and reveals new directions. ...

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