Don't Make A Meal Of It

DON'T MAKE A MEAL OF IT, 2011

1. Women’s weekly magazines and tabloids continually dish out dieting failures and success stories from celebrities and women in general.

2. The average dieter can spend up to £25,233 on diet products over the course of a lifetime.

3. An obsession with not eating can leave the dieter preoccupied with food.

Process: Hand stitch, hand drawing, photographic silkscreen printing

Materials: Textile, silk threads, silk organza, glasses, plates, ‘chicken fillets’, button-bases

Exhibited in:

62 Group Now, Upfront Gallery, Penrith, Cumbria (2011)

Construct, Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbighshire, North Wales (2014)

She Was Cooking Something Up, Solo Gallery, The Knitting & Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London (2014)

She Was Cooking Something Up, Solo Gallery, The Knitting & Stitching Show, Harrogate, North Yorkshire (2014)