Charlotte Blake

Combining loom weaving and basketry materials and techniques, Charlotte Blake's work explores ways of pushing dimensionality on a typically two dimensional medium.

Most often pieces are woven on a floor loom with an instinctive approach and then manipulated off loom to create forms that strive to unexpected shape and proportion. Blake is drawn to fibre and fibre related processes because of the inherent and often overlooked requirement of labour and time. Themes of memory and the value (or the devaluation) of labour permeates her work. Using the language of stitches and combining materials that are delicate/heavy and fine/rough, she looks to create an abstract narrative of her own experiences growing up in a working class family.