“This is where we meet”, AVA gallery, Cape Town, February 2006

The work for this show started in 2003. It makes reference to earlier work but I have found new possibilities both in the way the work has been made and the reading that has informed it.

I clearly remember deciding that I needed to look at the tone of colours I had been using. I found direction in African textiles and as a weaver by trade this gave me a way in.

I have been able to shift my colour, find new surfaces, work with pattern and relocate or contextualise this body of work from a different view point, using previous experiences as references.

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