Still from a nightmare - part 1 Home Page Within the shaped work

Within the shaped work

hidden and close at hand

is to create an environment where these qualities can thrive

Red hair is painstakingly woven into minutely fine stands of silk

highlighting the large-scale patterns and flows that shape the natural environment

Still from a nightmare - part 1 Home Page Within the shaped workThe three sculptures explore a moment of enforced transformation in which the boundaries between body and mind become blurred. Through the act of containment and subsequent rupture, the work considers how identity is shaped through processes of imposition, adaptation, and fragmentation. The body is situated within a liminal state where protection and restriction, play and violence, autonomy and compliance coexist.