I began working quite repetitively with black and white gingham fabric, as I found myself fascinated with textiles and sewing. I continually kept returning to stitching as a drawing medium not only as a way to construct, when developing a body of work.

My ‘bottle madness’ found me stitching by hand and machine, busily making multiple bottle shaped forms, with the aim to build obsessive constructs in space.

These forms I then organized into temporary environments, which I recorded with my camera. Some of these images I developed into different streams of mixed media works, such as digital, or they were reworked through drawing, sewing, painting on canvas or board.
I found these bottled forms stand strongly on their own when installed as single or grouped objects. I had chosen black and white gingham as I enjoyed the optical and theatrical plays the gingham pattern has on one’s senses. Also gingham fabric introduces ideas of domesticity and nostalgia, around the playful repitition of an everyday form, we use and discard.