I’ve been interested in combining knitting and drawing for a while, and so I’m keen to find other people working in similar areas. The image above is by Haley Lowther, and I saw it at Manchester Met’s BA Embroidery show in 2007 – and it’s stuck with me ever since. Her actual knitting was on an enormous scale – huge, huge pieces, photographed on a hillside and looking like contour maps – like you’d walked into a geographical drawing. The piece above is one of her drawings – also enormous – on paper which hung from ceiling to floor. They were based on the patterns of stitches and were made with all sorts of implements and paints/inks. So the lines were gloopy and fat, or spindly and delicate. And the image was so vast that it seemed to surround you and cut out everything else around.
I can still remember the work clearly, but the only reference I have is this one postcard. I’ve tried to find out what she’s doing now but she doesn’t seem to have anything on the internet . . .
