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 four of the series are completed and shown below, the rest will be added as they are finished
Stations: Judgement (2024)
“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 (2024)
“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.
Stations: Fall (2024)
“Fall” is inspired by the 3rd Station from the Passion when Jesus falls for the first time as he carries the cross. A woman falls to the ground, reaching for the symbol of her motherhood as she learns she has miscarried.
Stations: Tender (2024)
"Tender" is inspired by the 4th Station from the Passion when Jesus is met by his mother. In "Tender" a woman who has lost her baby is comforted by her mother as the cycles of time pass. A phoenix, symbol of immortality, stops to drink at the fountain of youth but is offered the bleeding heart of the woman's mother in recompense for healing her child's pain.
