Artist

Kiri is a multidisciplinary artist, her practice includes textiles, performance, installations using light, photography, and plant installation/making from nature.
Kiri works intuitively with natural objects and textures: shells, feathers, hair, bark, leaves and twigs, wood, pelts and leather, and man-made/ processed objects including glass, car-parts, strapping/packing tape, ribbon, rope and string, cellulose film… anything that feels right and is likely out of context, or needs a closer appreciation away from usual form or function.
With a knowledge that the spice trail has nothing on textile skills trade and the way techniques track across the map notating migration and travel.
Kiri works through textiles and explores contemporisation of ancient techniques learned by the hands of incredible women and makers: binding, knotting, weaving, dying, stitching, hand sewing, coiling, yarn work and plaiting.
Kiri is an avid image taker, a moment capturer, using photography to capture a macro look at the most divine things.
She likes to work with plants, their life and growth are mapped as part of living installation.

Kiri considers producing to be part of her creative practice, or at least an evolution of her performance practice. While administrative, the way this is approached with its creative and intuitive nature is by default a practice, evolving into a second nature, a sensitivity, an instinct with other makers and communities.

Kiri’s artist and producer bios are here.

Current work in progress: Messages