“The one duty we owe history is to rewrite” – Oscar Wilde

My practice this year has been one of historiography. Working to communicate women’s material cultures and textual history. Bringing to the fore how women have not only survived or even bought into their subjugation but transcended, transgressed, thrived and created in spite of it. And the active and passive censorship, the manipulation of history of women to hide their power, freedoms and voices. Twisting those who utilised them into monsters. Using embroidery to create work that would disrupt the narratives ‘of the ways things always were’ of the preconception of acquiesce and women’s work. Inspired by the works of Judy Chicago, Miriam Shapiro, Lorna Simpson, Elaine Reichek and Hew Locke.