Banner (No One is FreeTil We Are All Free)

2025

New and repurposed nylon,150cm x 250cm

This work has multiple functions: an abstracted artwork handcrafted with the textile technique used in Korean bojagi, a protest banner, and a declaration in support of universal human rights. We are living in a time when genocidal actions are bringing anger, heaviness, and immeasurable grief, artists and activists are being censored by government and institutions, and tyranny is spreading. I have aimed to make a work of lightness, luminosity through transparency, and formal beauty. Flags and banners waved at protest marches and rallies bring colour and movement to sombre gatherings as well as providing an identity under which to gather. This artwork, hand-made with ultralight fabrics normally used for tents, sleeping bags, and outdoor apparel, combines this public role of flags with the slow, domestic, female-identified labour of patchwork sewing. It can be both viewed for its aesthetic qualities of formal geometric abstraction and read as an urgent universal rallying cry.

Climate Changed

2020

Cotton and polyester woven and felted fabric,120cm x 90cm

Protest banner carried at Sydney climate protest 10 January 2020, during devastating bushfires that were the worst NSW has ever recorded.