NET WEIGHT NET LOSS, 2016
It is commonplace for young people with eating disorders to ingest laxatives, diuretics and emetics to purge their bodies of food, or to use caffeine tablets and cigarettes to give them more energy or to decrease their appetites. An outline (or net) of the kind of boxes which would normally contain these has been hand stitched to form a ‘flattened’ box which takes up little space, ‘A voice in my head tells me that if I ate less, took up less space, life would be easier, safer’.
Measurement: 26cm x 23cm x 1cm (2 x frames)
Process: Hand stitch, digital printing
Materials: Textile, silk threads
Exhibited in:
Making Space, Macclesfield Silk Museum, Cheshire (2016);
Making Space, The Knitting & Stitching Show, Olympia, London (2017)
Making Space, Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland (2017)
13th International Eating Disorder Conference, University College London (2017)
Desperate Artwives, Feminism in London Conference, University of London (2017)
BEAT Eating Disorder International Conference, Imperial College London (2018)
What’s Going On Upstairs, Solo Gallery, The Knitting & Stitching Show, Alexandra Palace, London (2018)
What’s Going On Upstairs, Solo Gallery, The Knitting & Stitching Show, The RDS, Simmonscourt, Dublin (2018)
What’s Going On Upstairs, Solo Gallery, The Knitting & Stitching Show, Convention Centre, Harrogate (2018)
Image and Narrative: Illness, Recovery, Change, The University of Nottingham (2019)
First Steps, East Midlands Mental Health Service Innovators Conference, University of Derby (2019)