The installation Gingham Room is a nostalgic Kitchen, drawn & stitched together, a celebration of all things typically domestic. The inexpensive cotton gingham checked fabric has been used since the 1900’s for things around the home such as curtaining, basket liners, tablecloths, serviettes, kitchen aprons for adults and smocks, bags, cushions & dresses.

The black and white gingham playfully forms the walls, doorways, window drapes, the tea towel, and the floor mat in the room. The stitching on the white cupboards, window panes, and draining board is a way of drawing with cotton stitching, and the objects such as cupboard door handles, bowls, jugs and taps, are pencil drawings ironed carefully onto the fabric, another common domestic task.

The Kitchen is optically challenging to walk through and around, with the black and white checks dancing crazily before ones’eyes. The whole room a flat drawn image
of an old fashioned kitchen.