Siri Hayes: All you knit is love
All you knit is love is the name of the yarn shop I frequented in Barcelona whilst on an Australia Council residency in Spain in 2010. It is an apt name for the body of work I produced in the same location, as it identifies some new and significant trajectories within my practice that were prompted by the experience of relocating our young family to a foreign country for three months.
Art Exhibition
previously on
at
Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)
in
Victoria,
Australia.
From
Friday 13 April 2012 to Sunday 27 May 2012
Published by CCP on Monday 16 April 2012.
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In previous work I have investigated place, multiple histories and associated ecological issues. These inquiries continued in Spain, however, as a tourist, parent and artist I also began to examine the experience of place with a more personal and maternal lens. As a result of this, some domestic crafts have surfaced in my practice. I became an obsessive knitter in Spain and I have also begun stitching on my photographic imagery
