Interpersonal Spatial Arrangements

2011 - 2015

Hand embroidery on wool

This stitched series ‘Interpersonal Spatial Arrangements’ developed from a continuing experimentation into using traditional embroidery stitches in a contemporary context, and exploring their abstract qualities.

Playing with seeding stitch, I became interested in the visual possibilities for these tiny marks to depict a concept I was becoming increasingly drawn to - the way in which humanity has the power to express common thought, opinion and appreciation through the act of coming together to form crowds.

By using aerial images, abstracting only the human element from the larger picture and representing people as individual stitches, similarities are made to the way society and civilisation can join together and speak as one voice, in a similar way to how the individual stitches are ultimately linked together as a continuous thread and embedded into the structure of the fabric.