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.