I have worked sculpturally with paper since art college. I like the simplicity and the limitations of the process. I can be intuitive with only a needle and paper. Paper has an immediacy; it is easy to manipulate – there are no preparations or complicated tools. The needle is an easily acquired tool, with a domestic history; as a woman, I identify with this. From an early age, I was taught needlework which I loved and I was good at it. There is a tension between this positive childhood experience and the negative feelings of anger which are expressed by the destruction of the paper in the prickings. I have extended the ideas from paper works to stop animation film.
‘Drawing parallels between the sting of pain with the sting of hurt and anger, the use of jabbed holes/perforations reflect ideas of difficult relationships, that, like the lines of punched holes, are half hidden, half visible and testament/evidence of tension released.’
Kate Stoddart, Curator.
‘Yarrow’ (2015). Stop animation, duration 01:15.
