The ongoing series Maker Unknown, investigates the often-unacknowledged labour of anonymous female makers working within textile traditions, quilting. The series considers how knowledge, memory, and creative practices are passed on through informal and often fragile channels—family narratives, inherited objects, and the material traces left behind in domestic spaces, antique stores and museums.

This work emerges from a deeply personal family tradition in which questions of memory and continuity have become urgent following my mother’s recent diagnosis of dementia. As memories begin to fragment and recede, the processes through which knowledge is preserved, forgotten, or transformed become increasingly visible.

Maker Unknown proposes the act of making as a form of remembrance, connection and female story telling—an embodied archive through which personal and collective histories continue to be held, even as memory itself becomes unstable.

This series is a work in progress

Works are printmaking using stamps and linocut, oil and acrylic on paper.