Holding the Space

An exploration of absence, grief and loss through handmade textile objects, performance, and photography ​

Cast Off
Materials: Inkjet print mounted on Dibond
Dimensions: 900 x 600 mm
 

Holding the Space, explores emotions resulting from being estranged from a loved one. Wearable objects were made, worn, ‘performed’ and documented to explore loss, shame and longing using self-portrait photography.

Cast Off explores the impact of estrangement on one’s sense of self through the unravelling and re-knitting of a balaclava.

 

See Me
 Materials:   Cotton, cardboard from house moving box
Dimensions: 420 x 300 mm

See Me: Wearable Sleeping Bag
Materials: Recycled blanket, cotton fabric, synthetic wadding
Technique: Padded and quilted, hand-stitched, and machine-stitched text
​Dimensions: from shoulder to bottom hem approx. 1250 mm

In Your Place
Materials:  Lambda Digital C-type Print
Dimensions: 600 x 450mm

 See Me, In Your Place, On Longing and Longing Takes Over  use empty bags to suggest physical absence and investigate how grief and longing can be conveyed through the performance and materiality of these objects.

Shame mask (Cemetery Flowers) 
Materials: Cotton, found fabric flowers
Dimensions: Variable

Shame mask (Red) 
Materials: Acrylic wool
Dimensions: Variable

Performance #1 - #3
Material: Lambda Digital C-type Print
Dimensions: 250 x 250mm each

On Longing Journal  
Materials:   Flip Book 
Dimensions: 210 x 297 mm

 Longing Takes Over #1
Materials: Lambda Digital C-type Print
Dimensions: 600 x 450 mm
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Longing Takes Over #2 (Inside Out)
Materials: Lambda Digital C-type Print
Dimensions: 600 x 450 mm

Longing Takes Over #3
Materials: Lambda Digital C-type Print
Dimensions: 600 x 450 mm

Longing Takes Over #6
Materials: Lambda Digital C-type Print
Dimensions: 600 x 600 mm

Artworks produced during my Master of Fine Arts 2020
Thanks to Esther Frieda for her support and direction with photography