Branwen Davies

These are hand built. They can protect young plants from too much light or encase a candle flame that flickers colour at night.

Like us all, they are not quite straight or symetrical.

You know the mouth watering pictures in recipe books? Making this work was like following one of those detailed recipes, over days, piecing it together to create the perfection shown in the cookbook photograph, though I made these dishes up as I went along from the pictures in my head. Eat with your eyes. Sewn but sumptuous.

Materials: cotton paper, cotton thread, beeswax

Dimensions: 40 x 50 cms / 50 x 40 cms

Each piece is one of an edition of 3.

Australian Lesbian Medical Association (ALMA) Exam:

I devised and sewed this series of work for the ALMA Conference held in Adelaide, November 2012.  Each piece has an edition of three.

It's breathtaking up close and takes time to see the detail. It's meditative work to make and to look at, belying the silliness of the text.

I used these same shapes in some of my cast paper work. Here they are crocheted and felted. Sewn together. Hung.

I love the unknown part of machine felting.  The shapes are knitted then washed on a hot washing machine cycle, which I check regularly so the pieces don't shrink too much. 

It's an imperfect process.  Straight lines may blur or find definition.

I bought a thermos. It had instructions on how to use it. These copies are in Portuguese.

Dockets, payslips, shopping vouchers hand sewn to make domestic comforters in paper.

Ready or not…some of the things I thought about and saw while having radiotherapy treatment after two operations to deal with breast cancer.

I made notes at the time and then wrote My Radiotherapy Workbook. These large images are taken from that book.

There are layers of text. The big writing is a kid’s version of events. The smaller the text the less the story focuses on the events and more on the time spent.

Dimensions: 1000 x 640 cm or 640 x 1000 cm

Media: oil stick, oil pastel, ink marker, pigment pencil

Seeds and petals delicately sewn or placed with tweezers.

Fragile, sensuous, transformed into patterns other than nature’s.

Never sprouting, slowly decaying.

These images are made from paper that I laid, piece by piece, into plaster moulds.  The moulds are made from clay positives that are more or less identical to the finished paper works.

A little book with drawings and bits of naycha stuck in. Five pages.

Graphite, pigment pencil, petals, sticks, fur, seeds, paper, tissue, calico, shellac, handmade paste.

These works were completed in the 1980s using small toys and other miniature items.