“For some time I have been making work about the anxieties, failures and messiness of being a mother. I use domestic pattern as a kind of stand in for the repetitive, boring, and loving gesture of maternal labour. For me, pattern is also a way to explore longstanding concerns around painting, for example, and the edge between abstraction and representation. Similarly, it is a means for rethinking the flat surface and re-examining the potential for creating a different narrative order in painting.”
