My work cannot be categorised as either low or high art.
I make use of needlework by embroidering with strips of paint or knitting with paint. Utilising needlework with paint, paint being historically associated with high art, thrusts needlework into a male dominated discipline. Using needlework to paint, and paint to produce needlework forces a re-contextualisation of the aesthetic hierarchies existent within contemporary art practice.
The aesthetic hierarchy suggests that needlework connotes femininity and domesticity therefore needlework occupies a ‘low‘ aesthetic value. My work challenges the categorisations and hierarchical labels of ‘low’ and ‘high’ art through knitting and embroidery with paint.
My work cannot be categorised as either low or high art.
