I spent a day learning about different weaves and ended up weaving a basket. I felt quite impressed with myself as I am a very impatient person and I managed to make the whole basket without getting overly frustrated!! 

(made from 8 strips of folded newspaper)

“My studio practice questions conformity and notions of normality, and intersects the categorisation of art and craft. I use knitting to explore pertinent contemporary issues of the domestic, gender and the human condition. I find knitting to be a powerful medium for self-expression and communication because of the cultural preconceptions surrounding it. My work subverts these preconceptions and disrupts the notion of the medium being passive and benign. My ideas are expressed through an exploration of the human form and have resulted in pieces such as “Odd Gloves” and “Odd Sweaters”. These series question physical normality incorporating both humour and fear. The titles are important. I like to play on words to make visual suggestions: “Hand of Good, Hand of God” and “Skin - a good thing to live in”. In “Anyway” I explore value and scale through the production of a large knitted sculpture made on CAD controlled industrial machinery.” 

-Freddie Robbins