Laura Abbott
Goldsmiths College, Visual Arts (textiles)
‘In the nineteenth century the ragpicker scavenged cloth for recycling, recuperating cultural detritus cast aside by capitalist societies.’[1]
My current work concerns the relationship between the domestic object and its notions of memory, focusing on the subjects of decay, dereliction and the trace of the human touch. I explore how found, discarded objects & recyclable materials such as windows, doors and domestic textile matter including used clothing & bedding, can be re-used. My role within the work has aspects of the contemporary ragpicker, selecting suitable materials to recycle to create sculpture with. Each object I re-use has an emotional history carrying traces of a visible human interaction which provoke memories of a dark and derelict past. Hidden within the chaos of clothing are delicate hand and machine embroidery’s depicting my own idea of lace, their twee floral beauty is in contrast to its darker and more deathly subject matter.
[1] C.Evans. Fashion at the edge. (2000). P256.
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