roots series (2022)

slip cast stoneware, gold plated copper, hardwood

A collection of decorative tools which reference how traditional food and craft practices can connect us to our cultural and ancestral heritage through the skills and knowledge that their performance creates access to. They explore the similarities between traditional food and handicraft practices in relation to my Irish heritage. Both live in the domestic environment, both are traditionally the productions of female labour, both are passed down orally, and both are fragile; they require inheritance otherwise they’ll be lost to time.