Mother-in-Law’s Levis

Clothes, fabric 114 x 151 cm (2023)

Roses

Clothes, fabric 118 x 163 cm (2023)

Security

Clothes, fabric 120 x 191 cm (2024)

Dad’s leopard print trousers

Clothes, fabric 92 x 165 cm (2023)

Laura Ashley (Skiathos)

Clothes, fabric 123 x 195 cm (2023)

Charlie

Clothes, fabric 127 x 180 cm (2024) WIP

Couples feature second hand textiles, factory samples and hand me downs from relatives, including my mum’s wedding dress, clothes from my dad, twin sister, mother-in-law, granny and friends.

The figures are pairs who dance, play and entwine, flattened in a cartoon-like 2D plane. The bodies enact relationships and behaviours which evoke intimacy and playful posturing. The clothes are both dead things and full of life, history and memory.

They are created using a labour intensive process combining machine sewing and hand stitching over the entire surface.