2025
A series of hand-woven jacquard weavings based on woodcut prints.
Featured in Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2025
While I see a lot of similarities in the process-heavy mediums of print and weave, I wanted to combine woodblock and weaving for their differences; woodblock can be physical, unpredictable, raw and perhaps even crude compared to the grid and order of weaving. Wood splinters unexpectedly, your hand can skid along the surface leaving an unplanned groove and the printing process itself reveals the irregularity of the wood grain. These combine to give woodblocks an energy and presence that I wanted to capture in a woven work.