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on February 10, 2023

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A collection of images exploring the connection between British Wildlife and British Culture.

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Material & Craft Heirachies

Sennett, Korn, Ruskin et al discuss 'craft' usually within terms of woodwork of some kind. Weaving is the only textile craft mentioned in these defining texts. These two objects are a way of exploring ideas about the cultural and gendered heirachries that surround contemporary ideas of craft. Crochet Chair in recycled yarn Tank Top made of birch bark

Feminine Craft

The father of our current ideas about what craft is, Ruskin wrote about how women are the embodiment and guardians of nature. Lovelock's Gaia theory is named for the Earth Mother (not father), and Pinkola-Estes' writes about common female archetypes that transcend cultures such as Baba Yaga and the Earth Mother. These three dolls are made in the shape of a matroyshka doll (the Russian mother), the first two represent two sides of the female as nature form, the third is a way of exploring the need for new mytholgies that connect us to the digital space. Baba Yaga The powerful, potent and fierce woman of the forest Bleached t-shirt, children's cape, foraged necklaces, yarn and found pigeon and jackdaw feathers. Earth Mother The benign, nuturing Gaia figure Bleached t-shirt, old lace, air dry clay imprinted with toad flax, rescued fake flowers, yarn and found pigeon feathers. Ether Half analogue, half digital she references Shakti, the primordial cosmic energy. L...

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