©2009 Karen Logan
Exhibition at the House Gallery, London, 2003
During my masters at Goldsmiths I organised House Hold, an exhibition to show 'work in progress'. As one of four exhibitors we were united in making work that unsettled assumptions about a 'cosy' domestic space, Deptford Market and charity shop finds were tweaked and dismantled, transformed into troubling artefacts from (an)other's strange home.
Materials usually associated with the sewing box interest me: cotton, pins, ribbon and wool, these being historically connected to women's pastimes and therefore the domestic space. During my childhood I sewed and sewed, knitted too, becoming absorbed with my self motivated projects, making clothes for my Sindy doll and my friend's Sindy's. Returning to these familiar methods of manufacture enables me to explore/express my relationship to the domestic space of that childhood.
The Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands is a piece that has the potential to keep growing. Thread from the reel is manipulated around the inserted pins to form a knitted tube - as such it feeds itself in a repetitive, pointless pastime, devouring thread in the process, keeping busy. Found wool scraps full of potential narratives are french knitted into a length that describes the circumference of my mum's living room and in One of a pair, green cloth bottles made from second hand curtain material inhabit a corner.
During my masters at Goldsmiths I organised House Hold, an exhibition to show 'work in progress'. As one of four exhibitors we were united in making work that unsettled assumptions about a 'cosy' domestic space, Deptford Market and charity shop finds were tweaked and dismantled, transformed into troubling artefacts from (an)other's strange home.
Materials usually associated with the sewing box interest me: cotton, pins, ribbon and wool, these being historically connected to women's pastimes and therefore the domestic space. During my childhood I sewed and sewed, knitted too, becoming absorbed with my self motivated projects, making clothes for my Sindy doll and my friend's Sindy's. Returning to these familiar methods of manufacture enables me to explore/express my relationship to the domestic space of that childhood.
The Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands is a piece that has the potential to keep growing. Thread from the reel is manipulated around the inserted pins to form a knitted tube - as such it feeds itself in a repetitive, pointless pastime, devouring thread in the process, keeping busy. Found wool scraps full of potential narratives are french knitted into a length that describes the circumference of my mum's living room and in One of a pair, green cloth bottles made from second hand curtain material inhabit a corner.
