natural materials

Textile banner listing the Rights of a Tree with an abstracted depiction of a tree and text bubbles

Rights of a Tree

Charlotte Squire presents a banner for the ‘Rights of a Tree’ as part of Flow State at Make SW, referencing trade union banners and William Morris’s writing behind workers rights and craft, where engaging the senses through the handmade process is a key concept.  Legal standing for the more-than-human inhabitants of natural world was first […]

willow, double french rand, head piece, mask, folk art

Skep

small textile figure on stilts wearing a mask made of agapanthus seed heads

Stiltwalker

Stiltwalker 2024 textile, wire, wood. Where Are We Now? at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery Honiton Stiltwalker is a small figure striding through the landscape. Walking on stilts is something I remember from growing up in Kent, where stilt walkers were used for hop picking & stilts were a natural part of childhood games – here […]

Seed Head

  photo credits Nicky Hirst 2022  Spirit figures in mask & costume evoke a magic realism of an older culture needing to be recalled as the natural world struggles with our careless treatment of it…. over lockdown the garden became a sanctuary to grow plants to eat and become reacquainted with the seasonal evolution of […]