TRACERY is work made in response to the remarkable lace collection archived in the Museo del Merletto in Burano & Palazzo Mocenigo,Venice
The aesthetic language of lace and cartography intertwine in interpretations and reiterations of 'imparaticci', the paper patterns used by the hands of lace-makers from Burano for centuries. Here translated into Ordnance Survey maps of the Lake District and other places they encompass the beauty & fragility of lace itself & the intimate stories of life told therein.
'I would endeavour to trace the lines of this image before it be for ever lost, and to record,as far as I may, the warning which seems to be to be uttered by every one of the fast-gaining waves,that beat, like passing bells, against the Stones of Venice.' John Ruskin
Patterns of Life
'Ovale'
cut paper Ordnance Survey map
24 x 17cm
2018
Patterns of Life
'Colletto'
cut paper Ordnance Survey map
25 x 26ccm
2018
Patterns of Life
'Hand Signals '
cut paper Ordnance Survey map
40 x 20cm
2020
Patterns of Life
'Reading Between the Lines'
cut paper Ordnance Survey map
61 x 32cm
2018
Patterns of Life
'New Beginings' First Shoes
cut paper Ordnance Survey map
15 x 20cm
2020
Patterns of Life
'Absences and Presences '
cut paper Ordnance Survey map
56 x 56cm
2020
Patterns of Life
'Absences and Presences '
cut paper Ordnance Survey map
56 x 56cm
2020
Lace Embrace
'On the border of Infinite Pathways' detail
197cm x 21cm
2020
Lace Embrace
'On the border of Infinite Pathways' detail
197cm x 21cm
2020
Lace Embrace
'On the border of Infinite Pathways'
197cm x 21cm
2020
Patterns of Life
Mitaines
cut paper Ordnance Survey map
56 x 56cm
2020
Patterns of Life
'Fazzoletto' detail
cut paper Ordnance Survey map
33.5cm x 32cm
2018
