I see these ‘quilts’ as existential survival blankets that consider the comforting life force in materials, presence and place. By connecting pieces which trace an ecosystem of awareness, of time sedated by wonder. These works stand as advocates for cultivating an alliance with the natural world as crucial antidote to the precarities of multiple current global crises.

A Yawning Gulf (Above, 1970 x 1650 mm), and (Below, 2000 x 1550mm) are a pair of oil on textile, hand stitched, piecework paintings which mark the beginning of a new direction in my practice. Images of skies and collected stones from the places I have been are the visual resources I used to make these works, painted onto our family’s used domestic fabric scraps, and then stitched onto old family blankets I recall from my childhood at Nan’s place.

Exhibition image at Aotearoa Art Fair 2025.

Small framed painted textile collage studies also available as part of this series.