Stations (2024- )
“Stations” is a series of 14 hand-embroidered silk paintings charting moments a woman may experience in her journey to pregnancy, birth and beyond. Each work takes the theme and spiritual message from the corresponding “Stations of the Cross” and reinterprets it in the context of a woman’s matrescence – the physical, mental and cultural processes by which she becomes a mother.
Note: the first two of the series are completed and shown below, the rest will be added as they are finished
Stations: Judgement
“Stations: Judgement” (2024), hand-embroidered appliqué, 50cm x 63cm x 4cm
“Judgement” is inspired by the 1st Station from the Passion when Pilate offers Christ to the crowd and asks them to judge whether he or Barrabas should be executed. In this first image, I wanted to think about the pervasive ways Western society pressures women into mothering, particularly as they age, and the choices they must make in deciding whether this decision is right for them.
Stations: Burden
“Stations: Burden” (2024), hand-embroidered appliqué, 50cm x 63cm x 4cm
“Burden” is inspired by the 2nd Station from the Passion when Jesus receives the cross. In this work, I wanted to think about the medicalisation of the pregnancy journey and the “rules” that women feel they must abide by to enter the institution of motherhood.