Artist's statement

What makes me tick is thinking. Not so much the processes of making. They usually are a means to an end so in this sense I don't position myself as a studio crafts person. I enjoy crossing boundaries finding holes in fences and traipsing through other peoples' property.

I 'make do', that's how I describe my making processes. I gather and fossick about the place, gather bits and pieces and see what I can make from them.

I find myself 'always already' within simultaneous streams of feminism, queer and gender studies, men's liberation work, craft narratives and probably more importantly the place called 'folk'.

I make objects and I work with installation. I also 'draw' a lot but very rarely show this aspect of my practice, something I'd like to change in the future.

I investigate men's lives in and through textiles mostly. I do this in a folkloric fashion. By folkloric I mean the 'material culture' of working class and raised poor people. This means interpreting or re-interpreting men's lives through the medium of textiles and then looking at what happens.

It's a contradiction to do this work. I aim to open up the constructions of masculinity. And I do this from a liberation perspective.

The medium of textiles with all its associations real and fabled allows me the freedom to express emotions and to emulate closeness, the 'moving towards' the tacit tactile qualities of textiles as a medium that invites and allows.