Bibliophilia

I rarely do any stitching purely for personal purposes. It's so time consuming, and when I'm working on big art projects with ...

Yellowcake I sort through bags of yarn passed on by a family friend clearing out her craft stash. Ugly yellow acrylic sits on top of ...

A new project in memory of the 29 miners who died inside Pike River Coal Mine two years ago and whose bodies still lie buried in the...

One of my projects at the moment is tidying up the back of Just a Little Spill. This involves fitting a backing cloth mostly to hel...

Me and Just a Little Spill (to give you a sense of scale) Last week, in a mad rush to finish the stitching on my big black oil spill, I ...

View of Dispersant through the window from the ally. It doesn't photograph well because of the reflections. But its lovely in real lif...

Julie Gibbons interviewed me and has p osted an article about my work on her blog, Tractorgirl .  

The lovely Sculpture Park at Waitakaruru Arboretum has a new exhibition on for Autumn: call and response , curated by Kim Paton and fea...

A strand of Dispersant, casting night shadows on the studio wall In preparation for installing Dispersant in the Outeredge Project wind...

Blizzard (2011) I won an award!  One of the four 2012 National Contemporary Fibre Arts Awards, the one sponsored by the Nelson City Coun...

One strand This morning I finished crocheting the 400th globule for the Dispersant installation.  I think I  started the first globule ...

Click on image to see more of the show Sculpture & Object at Sanderson Gallery had a wonderful opening on Tuesday.  It's a gorge...

I have Antarctica-themed work appearing in two group shows opening in March, one in Auckland and one in Upper Hutt (Wellington Region).  I...

Big oil spill in progress  I've got three substantial works in progress at the moment and flit between them according to where I...

Stockton Mine (photo from Solid Energy ) I spend a lot of time looking at pictures of open cast mines (photographs, diagrams and maps) t...