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Barbara Touati-Evans

I am a visual artist whose main practise involve large scale wool installations, quite often of an interactive and sensory nature.

Wool as a material is hugely significant for my practice as it represents conflicting notions of protection and imprisonment, flexibility and rigidity, link and alienation which are all recurrent themes in my work.

I started becoming an artist in the simultaneously safe and suffocating bubble of the home while raising my two children. I gained confidence in my creativity while watching them draw and make, while role playing with them.

I use crochet, a traditionally female domestic craft, to build contemporary 3-d sculptures and installations. This is to bring the domestic out of the home, to shine a light on all the invisible threads of unrecognised female work.

 

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