My new work ‘I am the Thames and the Thames is Me’ explores the interconnectedness between humans and the River Thames through printed and dyed fabric and ceramics – as a call to reposition our bodies in historical memory and future action of the waste that we create.
Each totem I have made draws on multiple sources of inspiration, from Joseph Bazalgette’s* 19th-century sewerage designs to human waste management, and from mythical beasts living in London’s sewers to river pollution and disease, creating a series of fantastical and angry river spirits that are part human, part mythical creature, ...
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