LEAD ME TO THE HOLY MOUNTAIN

2016

This embroidered and needle-felted banner, combining text and drawing, was the main work produced during a two-month residency at the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 2016. The text, which was initially found scrawled on a toilet door in a bar, is a fragment of a Psalm (43:3).

At the end of the residency period I exhibited this banner – along with an existing embroidered banner and other new textile works – in an artist-run space called Garden Shed Gallery, located in a back garden in Northcote. As part of the exhibition I hand-tattooed drawings of rocks onto twelve people, over two days, in a work called Rock collection (and dispersion and dissolution).

This residency was supported by the Western Australian Department of Culture & Arts through a Creative Works Grant.