Artwork

STITCH TOGETHER
Galerie P+EN in Endoji, Nagoya, Japan
MARCH - MAY 2012


As well as my solo stitch work there were 4 collaborative projects with various Japanese designers and makers and one collaboration with the general public. It was such a good experience working with such brilliant people.











COLLABORATION WITH PENELOPE PLUS
Clothes by Nagai San (Galerie P+EN Owner)


left: Nagai San of Penelope Plus
right: Aki of Consent Furniture





COLLABORATION WITH CONSENT FURNITURE









COLLABORATION WITH ERI KITAYAMA
postal stitch collaboration - both of us added machine embroidery like letter correspondence



my stitches before Eri added hers ...
...and then made her beautiful bags




COLLABORATION WITH HANKACHI
bags made from recycled materials and baby clothes from fair-trade fabric




SOLO STITCHES - MAGPIE
Clothes and textile objects made from recycled materials








ALBUM, EP AND SINGLE ARTWORK


 Bite The Mountain Art Project


In the past 4 years I have spent a lot of time traveling between Japan, the UK and Europe. This artwork came from old paper collected in junk shops on my travels: kakegiku (painted Japanese scrolls), book covers, and old seed packets etc., combined with my dad`s old sea charts, and my clarinet scale book from school etc. I then spent hours, often whilst traveling, adding stitches to the pieces of paper, and finally hand stitched them all together.








from it sprung a mountain - maybe the land of my travels come together?
There is a poster of this inside the album


the next stage was to divide the original stitched mountain into 600 pieces.
With the help of Chris from Broken Sound the pieces were made into badges 

for the Balloon single and the Claw and Tooth single

Balloon Single


The badges each contain original artwork along with a grid reference (29Q) and come complete
with a download code for the music, animations, and an invitation to join the photo project. 
We`re asking people to send in a photo of the badge in a significant place/situation, 
so that the traveling of the 600 squares (bites of the mountain) can be traced further

go here to get one and join the project


Claw and Tooth single
with art work and animation by Betsy Dadd






a bite the mountain photo submission




Elephee EP

Hand Printed Linocut 
I made the stamp and Chris of Broken Sound did the print run


Elephee EP - Hand Drawn Back Cover

Moth in the Motor


Moth In The Motor 10" Vinyl - Hand Printed Linocuts
Each sleeve different, made using linocuts from my Heads & Tails exhibition in Japan
Again, I made the stamp and Chris of Broken Sound did the print run




Self Released Albums

After The Ant Fight 
Hand Sewn Back Cover
After The Ant Fight 
Hand Sewn Front & Back Cover
The World Outside Is In a Cupboard
Drawn whilst working on the Bristol ferries, chugging in circles on a quiet winter days work
Songs From The Crypt 
Collage & Machine Embroidery on Paper depicting the song Foroya
Summer/Autumn Recordings 
Lino Print & Machine Stitch on Paper




HEADS AND TAILS

Heads and Tails was an exhibition I had in Japan that later became the artwork for 
The Moth in the Motor. Inspired by the array of animal characteristics and the game 
consequenses where you drew a head, fold it over, pass it on, the next person draws a body, 
fold it over pass it on, the next person draws the feet. I always used to play this game, 
and it's also one of the ways I spent time with Ichi when we first met 
and couldn't speak each other's languages.






THE CROW`S JOURNEY

This was an exhibition I had in Tokyo in 2008. I was motivated to make this particular work through my own lone journey of looking that I was doing in Japan at the time. I used stitch and lino print to create a story. Here are 6 of the 16 pictures from the story.










DRAWING























MAGPIE

Textiles made from recycled fabric






badges






cd pouches


10" record pouches






7" record bags














embroidered fairtrade bags






ARTWORK FOR BOOK COVER