Setting out for final exhibition:

http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/ruth_laskey/  

An article about an artist named Ruth Laskey who had a growing dissatisfaction with the given materials of painting and so she started to paint into them with woven structures instead. – Grids, patterns, illuminated areas of blank linen

"The grid can be seen as ‘an image of the woven infrastructure of the canvas"

My most recent works – layering and repetition of the fragile cotton threads has reference to weaving and may also refer to the structure of a canvas created over a frame – confined to that support. My final wall work that I made for the exhibition is an exploration away from the canvas/frame and more about the layering and structure of a number strands of something fragile and easily missed as an individual to appear strong and rigid once presented in a layered structure. From afar the defined grid structure gives the cotton thread a strong appearance that if the viewer was to see an individual strand. Up close the viewer can inspect the work and notice how delicately it has been constructed around each pin, the material acting as both the image and support but with a stronger relationship to the wall as a support aswell. This work was made to be site specific , refernceing the grid structure found in the window, as I have experienced the space and taken aspects from  the environment that interest me.

Untitled, pins, cotton thread