The exhibition "The Waves" is named after the novel by Virginia Woolf of the same title. The work in this exhibition, although varied, is brought together by a single repeating handwoven woven pattern with an undulating character: a 'wave' of threads rising and falling in a repeated motion.
In between this wave-like image where the rise and fall meet, forms of eyes are depicted: eyes from which the characters found in this exhibition emerge. Faces constructed in ceramics, as woven tapestry and as paintings arise from a tide of this single patterning.
The exhibition title, "The Waves" links back to the initial steps of making this exhibition, weaving the cloth over a period of a few days where the artist listened to the audio book "The Waves," by Virginia Woolf. It was in these first moments that a parallel between the narrative of the book and the making of the exhibition began to materialize.
The book by Woolf has been described as an "individual consciousness" where "the ways in which multiple consciousnesses can weave together." The faces found in this exhibition can be described to mimic this literary strategy in how multiple characters are woven as one, both literally and figuratively, from a single woven cloth. Each character is distinct yet stems from a single consciousness.
Additionally, the ceramics in this exhibition are slip-cast from woven cloth, their core structure born from fibres turned to stone. This alchemical transformation infuses the woven cloth in their being, fossilized in the surface of their faces, a fragile fragment of the creative wave from which they were born.