2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize

Hey, Hey Benglis

Tina Wheatley

Hey, Hey Benglis, 2023 porcelain 19 x 64 x 64 cm

Through slow and contemplative processes of knitting and crochet, I am exploring experiences of cyclical and fragmented time, as these creative processes are intertwined with tasks of caring for family. Immersing these cotton objects in clay slip and firing them alters the object, it is now incapable of being unravelled. These material processes enable me to investigate the relationship between time, labour, care, craft, object and value, and what may be culturally ascribed as 'women's work.'