edge textile artists Scotland

Photographs from Verdant Works archives showed female weavers with bobbins of jute thread hanging from their waists. This was my starting point.

It’s a black and white image, massively enlarged and drawing you into the drabness and poverty of their lives. But, looking again, I saw friendship and smiles. What was it that gave those women their spirit and strength of character?

I was also struck by the fact that armies, soldiers and civilians alike continue to use jute sandbags as a form of protection, as they have been doing since at least the late 18th century...

In my piece there are elements of my memories of Dundee where I lived as a student when the city was changing greatly.