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My daughter’s school class-room assistant loves to knit. Last December she said that she had knitted my daughter a cardigan, as she knew that I never would. On Christmas Eve her husband delivered it, as he handed me the package he said two words, not “Happy Christmas” but “Bad Mother”. The exhibition of this piece, entitled Bad Mother (2013), elicited another surprising remark. A male visitor congratulated me on what he saw as a “very honest admission”. My identity as a mother and the tumultuous emotions I have felt are the driving force behind an on-going series of knitted works.

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  • Knitting has long held associations with practical function, the production of garments to keep us warm and comfortable

  • As I am an artist working almost exclusively with knitting it was assumed that she would have a wonderful array of lovingly knitted items to wear but I had knitted her nothing

  • How to make a piece of work when you’re too tired to make decisions 2004 Machine knitted wool, dress pins. This piece of work was conceived of during the first few months of my daughter’s life when I was lying in bed at night, over tired but unable to sleep

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Knitting has long held associations with practical function, the production of garments to keep us warm and comfortable. DO I FIT IN 2005 Hand knitted wool. How to make a piece of work when you’re too tired to make decisions 2004 Machine knitted wool, dress pins

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