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Wild/ garden flowers pressed between books and mounted on paper
Each piece 33cm x 25cm (series, ongoing)
The series, begun in 2007, consists of wild or garden flowers that have been pressed between the pages of different books. Each month, these flowers meet at the interface of a traditional feminine craft and an intellectual enquiry into amateurism, economics and mass cultural production.
July 2007: Icelandic wildflowers pressed in The Rise of the Creative Class, by Richard Florida, 2004
November 2007: Wild heather (Benbo) pressed in The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym, 2002
February 2008: Wild raspberry flowers in Archaeologies of the Future, by Frederic Jameson, 2005
May 2010: Bluebells in Glenn Adamson’s Thinking Through Craft, 2009
Exhibited at
Unto This Last, Raven Row, London, 2010, curated by Alice Motard and Alex Sainsbury
Everyday, the Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, 2008