Brief notes on recent projects

Abstract

My practice interweaves personal, social, and craft-based histories, often drawing from traditions of living, making and working collectively. Spanning exhibition making, design commissions, printed resources and workshops, my work explores references to modern design, handcrafts and radical pedagogies.

I often work on long-term embedded projects, using applied anthropological research methods to develop collaborative artworks, including textiles, furniture, video and ceramics. This talk for Making Futures expanded on a recent body of work which explores historical and contemporary models of collective craft and design activity that have taken place across workshops, classrooms and homes, with particular reference to the works, writings and teaching methods of modernist women artists and designers.

I discussed four recent projects: Together in a Room (Collective, Edinburgh, 2016), Making the Bed, Laying the Table (Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 2016), Jerwood Solo Presentations (Jerwood Space, London, 2016) and A Portable Mural (Serpentine Galleries, London, 2017) and will give a short overview of each below.