I’ve been working with cable ties for around five years.  It all started when I initiated a group exhibition ‘The Big Wrap" which brought together a group of nine Canberra-based textile artists who explored the concept of wrapping and the wrap as a metaphor.  Listening to them talk about their ideas, and as I happened to have an oversupply of cable ties lying around my studio, I started to loop the ties together in a fairly unstructured way to create a work for the exhibition called "Emergence 0: Cloak".

Since that time I have created 2 cable installations, the second called "Emergence 1: The Transfiguration". I'm currently working on a third, called "Black Velvet, Dark Night". 

Each of my cable tie installations are realised through a process of knowingness where the works create themselves from some spiritual connection inside/outside of myself. 

black velvet, dark night

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Detail of " Black Velvet, Dark Night"

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