I spend much time foraging for treasures amongst tumbles of seaweed along the Scottish shoreline. Seaweeds are immensely variable, complex structures, found in arrays of colours and textures. My seaweed works echo the ocean habitats of the species I preserve, through the relationship between woven fibres and these sea jewels.
Collect Open 2019
The installation ‘Mururation’ comprises four hand woven works which interpret the amazing spectacle of starling murmuration’s. Work one echo’s the flock’s swooning orchestration of air born acrobatics, the ephemerality, grace and beauty of the starlings collective movement. Works two and three track the birds funnelling and dropping into the roost, evoking the intensity of the mass and raucousness of the birds jostling for safe position,followed by stillness. Work four represents the birds leaving their roost few by few at dawn to join the vast space and freedom of the sky.

'Murmuration' comprises four individual art pieces:
Flight, descending into the roost, the roost and leaving the roost for the freedom of the dawn sky.

'Roost' Driftwood Sculpture. Materials: Driftwood, enamelled copper, monofilament, viscose, cotton.

'New Day' Five Panel, double sided spacial divide.Materials: monofilament, enamelled copper, cotton, chenille, reed.
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'New Day' Reverse side of seven panel spatial divide.

'Murmuration' Installation. Collect Open. Saatchi Gallery 2019


' Murmuration' Flight Details. Materials: enamelled copper, monofilament, viscose, cotton.
