SCAF Emerging Artists 2022 Exhibition Catalogue

Refugees: Working Together To Create A Sense Of Place
Jane's artwork is inspired by a recent story from a Palestinian
refugee camp:
A group of women came together to sew and began to share
unique embroidery stitches from their own villages. Together
they created a new embroidery pattern encompassing all of
these stitches, representing their combined knowledge, skills
and heritage. The resulting textile piece shared their new found
sense of place and belonging.
The abstract textile sculpture visualises the idea of individuals
coming together with their own set of skills and mind set and
through the process of working together create their own sense
of place.
Through her work she shares the stories of refugees as they
arrive and settle into new countries. It tells the stories of
interactions between new immigrants and local people as they
meet, adjust and learn to live and work with each other.
The process of making reflects and is a metaphor for the
process of immigration. Jane brings together individual threads
and fabrics and explores how they join together; how they react
to each other and demonstrating what happens as they combine
to create something new.
'I hope that my artwork will visualise how refugees bring new
and positive contributions which interact with local traditions to
create a multicultural inclusive society. My sculpture is made of
individual pieces that visualise the idea of the sum being greater
than its individual parts.'
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Scott Creative Arts Foundation