Dance of Vital Matter, 2021, bamboo batting, woollen yarn, dowel, dimensions variable.

 Rising to a Baroque Rhythm, 2021, synthetic felt, turmeric, cotton yarn, dimensions variable.

 Marmoreal Drift, 2021, taffeta, printing ink, aluminium wire, dimensions variable.

 Where Forces Meet, 2021, synthetic felt, turmeric, cotton yarn, dimensions variable.

 February 2021: Unfolding Breath, Newstead Arts Hub, Newstead, Victoria (Photos, Ian Hill)

My art practice explores processes of folding, unfolding and enfolding involved in change, growth, genesis and decay, an aspect of the interconnected world. Folding and unfolding create connections among the multiplicity of interconnections. These processes are driven by forces such as plasticity, extension and contraction, expansion and intensification or compression. They create intricately interlinked textures as well as more smooth and flowing surfaces.

 The fold is also a registering of potential, infolded in any structure, and speaks of yet to emerge possibilities, extending from organic and inorganic matter to non-human and human beings, to the inner realm of the human psyche.

 In my creative research I am exploring folds and folding/unfolding through an engagement with various materials and creative practices including printmaking and craft-based processes of sewing, using the textural and sculptural possibilities of fabric, and as well exploring the potentialities of paper as a folded medium.

 As an artist I am aware of my sense of connectedness to the materials I work with, their sensate powers, their tactility and texture. My work draws on this force of sensation, which activates an inner awareness and sensibility, which in everyday life becomes clouded by the habitual. Visual and tactile responses to materials can awaken this sensibility both for the artist/maker and for the viewer.