Sample/Together combines diagrams, textile and paper craft processes with new and recycled materials to create a collection of interrelated samples or ‘one offs’. These interrelated drawings and forms, reference collage, and the assembling and juxtaposing of sample against sample, to create endlessly flexible wholes. Grid layouts, diagrams and circular forms feature throughout and while there is replication, variation abounds. Inspired by the display tables and cabinets found within museum contexts, Sample/Together forms an archive of process, a record of action and documents the potential of patterns to create new hybrid forms.
I was a recipient of a Making Space grant from the Moreland Council. I used this opportunity to explore the process of reconstituting locally sourced clay found near my home. I created a series of small clay works that reflected my interest in Melrose Ware, the domestic table ware that was created in the ‘art pottery division’ of The Hoffman Brick, Tile and Pottery Company, in Brunswick during the 1930’s. Melrose Ware extensively used indigenous flora and fauna motifs as decorative elements in the work.