Destiny (tablet weaving) 2008
wool, tablets (playing cards), wooden chairs
250 x 75 x 37cm
A Wedding Cake is Forever (mixed emotion series) 2008
glass, swarovski crystals, royal icing, petal paste, edible colouring, nylon thread, methacrylate adhesive
84 x 35 x 35cm
Sweet Graffiti (big bang) 2007
royal icing, edible colouring, sugar decorations
10 x 3m (approx.)
courtesy MKgalerie
Sweet Graffiti / Love, Hope and Deceit (roses, almond flowers, anemones) 2007
royal icing, edible colouring, sugar decorations
150 x 150cm (approx.)
courtesy MKgalerie
Swarovski Wedding Project, 2007
A cut glass, sugar and crystal sculpture, commissioned by Swarovski for Unbridaled, an exhibition and publication to be launched during the Paris, Milan and New York Fashion Weeks in Spring 2008. Inspired by tiered wedding cakes, sugar and crystal decorations on the inside and outside of the piece reference the symbolic language of flowers. The whole piece is a glowing celebratory beacon of condensed and refracted lights and colours, a wedding cake made to last for ever.
A World Wide Web 2007, shirring elastic, 20 sq. meters (approx.)
A piece commissioned for the exhibition Radical Lace, Subversive Knitting held at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.
Knitting Piece #14 (Burgos) 2006, wool, colour photograph, size variable
For more information on knitting pieces, see interactive page.
For more information on knitting pieces, see interactive page.
Pot Pourri 2006, glass, royal icing, petal paste, edible colouring.
This sugar and glass piece, as well as several others listed below, contains modelled sugar flowers selected for their symbolic meaning according to the Victorian Language of Flowers.
Flowers in this piece include american cowslip (divine beauty), nightshade (truth), roses (love/friendship), yew berries (sorrow), almond (hope), Adonis (painful recollections) and aloe flowers (grief).