about lois

My work as a stitched textile artist allows me to consider many issues affecting our lives today. Since achieving an MA in Textiles in 2016 I have been looking at memory and how personal identities are created by singular life experiences.


By taking a slow approach to my work I considers how memory affects our stability and identity. Using cloth as the fundamental fabric of life, tangled threads echo situations we are confronted with daily. Experiences are laced with memories of those past. For me a rhythm in life is certain and things disturb that rhythm with frequent regularity. The use of rust dyed marks on cloth and paper indicates human impact and fragility.


Fusing my ideas on memory and environmental pollution including the now finally visible issue of plastic waste, I continue to develop the vitrines that constitute my ever-expanding memory wall. Each highlights an area of experience that defines aspects of identity, acknowledging the balance of positive and negative experience within the ‘freight’ of memory.

EDGE: Freight of Memory

Lois continues to develop the vitrines that constitute her ever expanding memory wall by highlighting areas of experience that define aspects of identity. She acknowledges there is a balance of positive and negative experience within the ‘freight’ of memory. ​

With these framed and boxed pieces I continue to enjoy constructing my own observations of where our memories might come from.

Tiny pieces of seemingly unimportant saved ephemera can momentarily become hugely significant as triggers to past experiences.

Our identities are being formed from birth through both haptic and emotional connections.

These experiences stack up to make us who we are, like it or not.
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Excessive material consumption tips the balance ‘over the edge’ for most of us.

CV and exhibitions