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"Under My Feet"
This piece was exhibited with Thames Valley Contemporary Textiles. We were given the brief to respond to the work of any artist who had appeared on the Fourth Plinth. I chose Mark Quinn's sculpture of Alison Lapper as a comment on disability. My husband has Parkinson's disease and receives a monthly magazine from the Parkinson's Society as a regular reminder that we live with this debilitating illness. I decided to tear up the magazines, and re-create a full sized body shape of my husband using stitch, thread, beads and gold leaf-covered clay.
Each piece of paper was torn so that it included the word "Parkinson's".
The choice of materials was important. The air dry clay was chosen for its fragility. The beads represented the cell changes which occur in Parkinsons. Like much of my work, there is an element of "repair" and working on this piece gave me a chance to work through the worries and anger that my husband's diagnosis presents.
The title alludes to the fact that a person with Parkinson's finds it hard to move around quickly and they get "under your feet"..
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