about lois

My work is inspired by issues that touch me personally, particularly the environment, currently ocean plastic congestion, as well as journeys and places and my emotional response to them.
 
Using photographic and sketchbook studies I use stitch and mixed media to produce 2D and 3D work with texture and colour; great importance is held to the use of recycled or found objects in the work where appropriate.

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