Crocheted wool and mohair fibres on quilted canvas backing, Hove, 2024

Prayers For Being Alive in This Rare Body gathers textile dispatches from the depths of one’s dance. Free-form crochet waves, spiralled and layered, form a portal into the transformational nature of movement. A reflection on moving through the feelings associated with receiving a diagnosis of a chronic illness, Prayers For Being Alive in This Rare Body pulls up resilience from The Well through dance, and makes it material.

• 120cm x 120cm textile wall-hanging

• Hanging points on reverse

• Signed on reverse

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