Twitter is an interesting and remarkably random thing. As part of my artist in residence project at Burton Constable Hall I had some social media targets and so I had returned to my long dormant Twitter account. I needed to work out how to use it and specifically to best promote my somewhat niche art practice. (If you are reading …
This is a small piece inspired by a particular aspect of arctic whaling that has interested me for a while now. British Arctic Whalers had various superstitions and traditions and the ones that interest me at the moment are those that relate to their material culture – special things that they made. In December I was privileged to be able …
Inspired by my recent trip the Gulf of St Lawrence where I was fortunate to see some of the small population of beluga whales that live near the mouth of the Saguenay Fjord. A couple of days later I visited the Redpath Museum at McGill University in Montreal to see their beluga and minke whale skeletons (and lots of other great …
I’ve used some related imagery I’ve been working on for a while to loosely illustrate this traditional song about a whaling voyage in book form. I used a combination of digital printing on fabric and fabric paint for the lyric pages. The images were made using transfer dyes, layering burnt sheer fabrics and freehand machine embroidery. The pages run in a …
Transfer dye on textile. 2015. Work in progress. Image inspired by various images of the Hull whaler Diana trapped in the Arctic ice in 1866.
Transfer dye on grey textile. 2015. Orca skeleton based on one at Bergen Natural History Museum
Quilted gold satin freehand machine embroidered Right Whale with skeleton, 2015
Layered organza iceberg with digital print of Whale ship Eclipse from Dundee. 2014
Cushion with harpoon design, 2014
Digitally Printed textile 2014. Double-sided map of Spitsbergen, geography on the front, geology on the back.