do my bones look big in this? 2018
Exhibited as part of What’s Going On Upstairs Installation
Artwork inspired by a quote from Wasted, A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher, and it is stitched on to the front of the tiny hospital gown: “My body would rattle, a marionette, someone shaking me, my head too heavy to hold up.”
Even at their thinnest, weakest, and close to death, the person with anorexia will still believe that they are fat...
Measurement: 36cm x 12cm
Process: Hand stitch
Materials: Textile, silk threads, vintage puppet
Exhibited in:
What’s Going On Upstairs, The Knitting & Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London (2018)
What’s Going On Upstairs, The Knitting & Stitching Show, The RDS, Simmonscourt, Dublin (2018)
What’s Going On Upstairs, The Knitting & Stitching Show, Convention Centre, Harrogate (2018)
14th International London Eating Disorders Conference, QEII Centre, Westminster (March 2019)
Threaded, Envision Arts Show, International Online Gallery (2019)
East Midlands Mental Health Service Innovators Conference, First Steps, University of Derby (2019)