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healing feelings

An exploration into how objects can help us heal from, and express emotional trauma. Taking found objects, I transformed them using textiles and other materials into a series of interactive fine artworks. The arm chair became a large-scale soft sculpture ‘hugging’ chair with attached arms and hands that can be drawn around the sitter like a hug from behind. The mouth piece features embroidery and beadwork, with a hidden matchbox under the tongue displaying spent matches to represent heartbreak / past relationships, and one unlit golden match for hope. The artist’s palette shows paint as textile - an embroidered broken heart, ‘spread’ across the palette, with the brush (also embroidered) prompting heartbreak as a medium for art-making. The transformed medicine cabinet with ears instructs the viewer to take beads from small vials that indicate their current feelings and needs. It then invites them to add them to a joint textile sewing exercise, with guest book and prompts for sharing with others around the table.

your artist friend

This series was all about exploring the role of an artist who cares about community. In this interactive work, I made portraits of my best friends and invited them to drawn on my artist ‘costume’. I created an interactive space and invited people to 'disrupt perfectionism’ by painting over perfect, clean circles. I asked questions of the audience as prompts for art-making and treated the whole thing like an art laboratory, with ‘the artist’ as lead scientist/explorer. Asking: “What conditons help artmaking to become an act of love and care?”

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