103 cm high x 88 cm wide x 6 cm deep.
Begun in 2018 and completed in 2019 (3 weeks before the picture of a real Black Hole came out on TV!)
This is a hanging sculpture from recycled material made from all my old stockings, cut lengthwise, plaited, and finely-stitched into a deep dark central hole, surrounded with its Firewall of brightly-coloured energy-sparks in concentric rings.
As I stitched the plaits, they made their own 3- d shapes. (The shards of colour evoke for me, too, electric moments in my own life’s event horizon).
‘Portrait of Margaret Thatcher in Silver Kit-Kat Wrappers’
(with the addition of some Christmas bon-bon wrappers in blue and red for eyes and lips)
60 cm high x 54 cm wide x 1cm deep: made from 2018-2019
Dichrotic ‘Saphiret Glass’ looks brown when reflecting light and purple when light shines through. Fred Daden, the Gaffer in the Royal College of Art Glass Department, gave me a piece of this to blow at the RCA, and I made this group of small vases and a tumbler. It is made by mixing molten gold and glass and was much valued by the Victorians. But its production ended when gold got too costly. And now it is sought after.
