Category Archives: Hair work

Moonbowls

These were the final embroideries I made with hair. Featuring Sue Upritchard’s grey locks, and my own black hair. To read more about this body of work, scroll down or navigate to the page Mythical Creatures. Or refer to the artist’s book & catalogue, 9, published in 2008. There’s probably a few things floating around the internet about this body of work too.

 

 

August 2010

Patterns

Works completed between 2006-2010.

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Corporeality

In these works human hair, external to the human body, is used to draw the interior of the body. Some of the images are based on 17th-18th century anatomical engravings.

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Cognition

Selection of works from 2007-2009..

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9

64zero3, Christchurch, July 2008

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These scans were taken prior to framing and feature in the accompanying catalogue.

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Link to the catalogue for this exhibition.

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Mythical Creatures

Some embroideries with hair made from 2005-2008.

I began this body of work looking at Chinese motifs extracted from textiles. To the left is the image of a dragon embellishing the coat of a Qing Dynasty court garment, and to the right, a butterfly, renown in the ancient Chinese philosophy story where a man, having dreamed of a butterfly, wakes up to wonder if he is a butterfly dreaming the dream of a man.

The use of hair in these tiny embroideries with my own hair references Victorian mourning jewelry, as well as an ancient Chinese practice of women embroidering images of the Buddha with their own hair as a form of piety.

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