Quilts and quilt-making have played an important role in my life. I have made them for friends and family, for my children, for local hospices and I have also made concrete quilts that have represented loss in my life. Quilts wrap us up in a blanket of warmth and love, they comfort us in the detritus of life.
This printed quilt incorporates the waste, debris and disintegration found in my local urban environment and is made up of 25 individual prints on Somerset paper, including monoprints, collographs and etchings, details of which can be seen in the images above. The weight of the press, the etched plate and the embedded items all create texture, tone and visible mark making which is evident in the resulting prints. By using found items, there is a level of indexicality to my work – the objects themselves leave a trace of their existence and embedded memory.