2018
I am
2018
50cm x 200cm
Lino print on hand recycled paper, hand-dyed cotton, eco-print, hand-recycled paper with botanicals
I am appropriates Barbara Kruger's 1990 I shop therefore I am print which questions meanings behind modern consumerism. I am considers the value attributed to invisible domestic labour when that labour follows contemporary notions of homesteading and home production as a conscious form of activism through living which stands against over-consumption and environmental degradation.
Mother polluter
2018
110cm x 130cm
felt, indigo, madder root, doilies, cotton, paper, wax
This large textile work considers contrasts in notions of Mother Earth as a pure environment and the contemporary mother as a consumer creating environmental damage. It was created using natural dyes and new and discarded cloth.