No Away, 2021
Hand-pieced linen offcuts with found colour and natural dyes, 50cm x 50cm
No away, 2021 (detail)
No away, 2021 (detail)
Study for No Away I, 2021
Hand-pieced linen offcuts with found colour and natural dyes, 36cm x 36cm (framed)
Study for No Away II, 2021
Hand-pieced linen offcuts with found colour and natural dyes, 36cm x 36cm (framed)
Textile 'waste' = raw materials
Offcuts and natural dyes
Collage inspired by textile offcuts
Found colour and natural dyes
Hand-stiched textiles inspired by patchwork and bojagi
Hand-stiched textiles inspired by bojagi
No Away
‘Gather, sort, scour, mordant, dye, press, cut, mark, fold, stitch’
A series of work repurposing textile ‘waste’ from Norwich-based maker Phaedra Clothing. No Away explores the idea of throwing things away and where that ‘away’ is, a kind of nowhere place, unseen and forgotten.
Linen offcuts are sorted by colour, with lighter colours hand-dyed using madder, walnut and meadowsweet. Inspired by traditional patchwork and piecing techniques such as Korean jogakbo, the linen offcuts are hand-stitched together. Rather than concealing the stitches, they are visible, each stitch referencing the value of the materials, and the time and energy taken to grow, harvest and process them.
No Away was shown as part of Cley21: Nowhere in July 2021 and in The Art of Waste exhibition at GroundWork Gallery in Kings Lynn in 2023.