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A Woman’s Work
In development - Installation of 100 sewing machines - various dimensions

A Woman’s Work is a new installation work in development inspired by my nan's work as a migrant labourer in Dalston and Shoreditch garment factories in the 1970’s. Alongside women from all over the world she made clothes for establishment highstreet names like Marks and Spencer, bought and worn by the same people who would rile against the ‘migrant hoardes’. 

It uses live wave pattern data from a Kent beach which sees the highest number of small boat landings, harnessing both real and metaphorical waves of migrants (the term weaponised by the right) with a layout resembling an army regiment, reclaiming descriptions of migrants as 'invading legions' and presenting them as armies of workers who have clothed us, fed us and still do.