Art and Heritage Online Database

Collection: Gray's School of Art Collection; Gray's School of Art Design Collection
Object Type: Fashion: Contemporary Textile
Artist/Maker: Abraham, Kiri
Date: 2006
Media/Materials: Thread, glue and buttons
Dimensions: 31 cm x 53 cm
Awards: RGU Textiles and Surface Design Purchase Award

Description:

This body of work began with an old photo album I had belonging to my Grandmother. She was from Edinburgh, and had spent a lot of her early adult life working as a nanny for military families in Palestine. The photographs and the text in the album became the focus of my attention, although conceptually, the work was about the journeys that people take both physically and emotionally

Object Number: ABDRG2006.40