Tell Me How To Be Here
Tell Me How to Be Here is a series of text-based hooked rugs that consider the multitude of ways that language guides our relationships to our natural environments. This work draws from collections of images of public signage, and notations of phrases that my grandmother remembers from her youth growing up in rural Nova Scotia. Tell Me How to Be Here also considers material questions such as the potential for craft processes to act as political interventions, and the establishment of craft as a vehicle for the matrilineal transfer of knowledge.
Tell Me How to Be Here was exhibited at the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador from July 7th to August 4th, 2023 and the Tina Dolter Gallery in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, from September 29 - October 23, 2021. Rugs from this project have also been exhibited in group exhibitions including Give Me Shelter (2021, more info here) and All Our Friend's Rugs (2023, curated by Queer Craft Club NL and exhibited at Rocket Bakery).
Tell Me How to Be Here
Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, July 7th - August 4th, 2023.
(photos by m+e photography)
Tell Me How to Be Here
Tina Dolter Gallery, September 29 - October 23, 2021.
Individual Rugs
I gratefully acknowledge the support of ArtsNL for partially funding this project.