Claire's Coming Out Dress, 2000

Commissioned by the Contemporary Art Society, Special Collection Scheme with funds from the Arts Council Lottery Fund, on behalf of Nottingham City Museums and Galleries.

Detail from Right to Life, 1998

Installation at Fig One, of Tree of Death, 1997 and X92, 1998

Detail of Tree of Death

Mother of All Battles, 1996

I wanted to make an embroidery piece that was as traditional as a vase.  Folk costume is an essential element of ethnic identity.  Many recent wars and genocides have been about ethnic identity.