Wall Hanging

The Wall Hanging depicts a metallic sea of shimmering, shiny shapes that move and alter depending on how the light falls upon them. Materiality is the narrative language here, which speaks of the meanings associated with Perry Street Mill and the bobbinet tulle industry that have emerged out of the repetition of the practices involved in the production of the bobbinet tulle.

Habitual and repetitive tasks were a re-emerging theme in the knowledge that was generated during the interviews. In this work, the making process and form of the work have been intertwined with the content. The six motifs that form the repetitive pattern were cut out by hand; the process of cutting out the intricate doily patterns was extremely labour-intensive, repetitive and time consuming. The performative aspect, the physicality, the repetition and at times the endurance required to finish a task is an important component that echoes the subject and content of the work.

Wall Hanging
Spider tissue 9 gsm, graphite, thread
240 x 355 cm

The employees perform tasks that are both individual and concurrently social. A sense of place is created in social practice, through multisensory, embodied experience and as an aspect of particular rhythmic, repetitive activities and movements. It is the multisensory experiences of the employees that have been instrumental in the development of the particular place that this work is about. This piece refracts the embodied understanding of place that relies on a form of constant process.