Work
Textile Art, Embroidery and Quilts. 2018 – Present.
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Body Forensic
Life-size tracings of the artist's own body, made in recovery from surgery. Two outlines read the body as a site of evidence: scars and marks catalogued as proof that an experience ignored by medicine had been real.
Home
Home: Archway London
An embroidered floor plan of a living room in North London, drawn freehand whilst inhabiting the space, then stitched in the room itself. The distortions are not errors. They map the difference between scale and experience.
Home
Home: Qurtubah Riyadh
The companion piece to Archway London. An embroidered floor plan of the apartment inhabited in Riyadh since 2021: a home being learned rather than one left behind. Drawn in sandy Riyadh tones, with emphasis on openings and sightlines.
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In/Out Pregnancy
A4 sheets of cotton laid on a Riyadh rooftop; the body laid on each one in turn. Arranged together, the cyanotype geometries recalled pregnancy and the days after birth: the body's boundary between inside and outside, suddenly and permanently visible.
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Maternal Cartography
Maps the points of physical contact between a mother's body and her children, now ten and twelve. Outlines traced, appliquéd across hand-dyed pink. The contour quilting follows the basting pins: the moment of touching stitched into the surface.
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Visual Field
The body seen from above: the brain embroidered from MRI scans, the sitting figure below in faded contours. What the eyes see stays clear. Everything behind is layered under sheer voile, with thoughts appliquéd discreetly within.
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white pleats
Hand-gathered horizontal bands sit between two readings: corset boning channels and scar tissue. Both reshape the body into a form it did not choose. The voile edge is a membrane. The rhythm is slow and breathing.
Woom
The wholecloth is a baby swaddling muslin. Across it: a burgundy oval for the womb, red and white ovals for two children, four small ovals for the miscarriages that came before. An embroidered elevation of the family home provides the last enclosure.
Joyeux Qiran
A wedding quilt, made as a gift. Five techniques on one surface: traditional piecing, double wedding ring, wholecloth, kawandi, and appliqué. Fabrics gathered from places the couple has lived. Guests signed on the day; signatures embroidered in.
Correspondences
A commission built from a year of shared prompts. Every fabric came from the subject. Each prompt was interpreted through something she gave back: a word, a memory, a photograph. The piece holds her life across continents.
Saif
A baby blanket, made as a gift. Soft cotton in the nursery colours chosen by the family, with the baby's name hand-embroidered into the cloth. Nothing generic, nothing interchangeable.
Henry
A nursery wall hanging, made as a gift. Covered in hand appliqué and embroidery: the family's home, location, activities, and children's book characters. Henry's name and birthdate are stitched into the surface.
Trousseau
Three inherited textiles from three generations of women, all of whom taught her to sew. Laid over deep red ground, the negligee carries the word "Anger" and the stitched scars of her surgeries. The embroidered text: Always on display, never truly seen.
Working Inventory
A hundred-day accumulation: one addition per day, made during enforced absence from professional life due to illness. Parts of a work shirt, research notebooks, a hand towel, beef bones, ribbons, broken shoelaces. Everything that constituted a life, laid onto the same ground.
Travel
Verdure
Made in a lakeside garden in Montreal during a family summer. The palette was built from scratch in Riyadh beforehand: a white cotton sheet torn into strips, worked through successive dye baths. The quilt holds the slow pace of a wet northern landscape after months of sand and heat.