TRY, 2024

Up-cycled Thread, Clothes and Copper

H100cm x W60cm x D15cm

ARTIST STATEMENT

Focus

Adapt

Purpose

Satisfaction

The artwork TRY extends a new direction in my art practice. I live off-grid rural, and it’s a journey to the shops for any material. With the current cost of living crisis affecting people’s finances, my focus for this piece was to repurpose leftover thread, clothing, and up-cycled copper pipe, I had at home, which resolved one issue - economics. Textile-focused, and hand-made, the intuitive construction method afforded me the way to express my heart and vision, this being the second resolution - technical. During research for this work, I stumbled across the history of a ‘Wagga’. The ‘Wagga’ is a distinct hand-made utilitarian quilt/rug/blanket born out of necessity, uniquely Australian from 1890, stitched together from up-cycled materials that were available to people at the time, just making do! I contemplate this artwork TRY a contemporary ‘Wagga’, the third resolution - conceptual.