Sweet Nothings: an intimate history of cake decorating 2005, Pump House Gallery, London

An interactive installation part of the exhibition Ceremony at the Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park, London. Visitors at the gallery were invited to decorate a cake and participate in cake decorating classes and workshops. Some 150 cakes were decorated over the course of two weeks, with a final display in the gallery attempting to trace a current social history of the craft.

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Knitting Piece #11 (Prague) 2005, National Gallery, Prague

A knitting circle part of the exhibition nEUclear reactions curated by Paco Barragan for the Prague Biennial.

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Knitting Piece #10 (Ghent) 2005, MIAT, Ghent

Knitting piece planned for the opening of MéTissages, an exhibition at the Museum Voor Industriële Archeologie en Textiel in Ghent. The piece 'Lost, Hidden, Forgotten' was also created for the show, which included the work of Ghada Amer, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Wim Delvoye, Tracey Emin, Mike Kelley, Annette Messager and Ernesto Neto.

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Knitting Piece #9 (London / Crafts Council) 2005, London

Knitting piece staged at the exhibition Knit 2 Together at the Crafts Council, London.

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Knitting Piece #8 (London Bridge) 2005, London

A performance planned for London Bridge and filmed by BBC television. The footage was broadcast on the London Tonight programme when talking about the Knit 2 Together exhibition at the Craft Council, London. Pinstripes were knitted during rush hour on London Bridge, next to London's financial district. Referencing suits worn by workers in the city, the point of this 'guerrilla knitting' action was to promote knitting and 'slow work' ethics, bringing home the fact that producing and consuming less might ultimately be better for all of us.

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Knitting Piece #6 (Cologne) 2004, Cologne Art Fair

If art is about comminucation, let's talk. These interactive knitting pieces are all about facilitating this.

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Knitting Piece #5 (Berlin) 2004, Artforum, Berlin

A knitting circle staged at the Artforum Berlin art fair.

The average time spent looking at a painting or photograph averages at around 20 seconds apparently, less at an artfair. there is a huge disproportion between the time spent producing and artwork and how long it is looked at. The knitting circle in this context turn this situation on its head. Visitors at the event took time here, while knitting, to reflect and exchange information on what they had seen at the show.

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Knitting Piece #4 (Paris) 2004, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

This knitting circle and the two below took place at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris during a Cast Off event.

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Knitting Piece #3 (Paris) 2004, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Patrick and Anne started knitting this loop. She was enthusiastic at first, soon got distracted, and left him to it. He carried on for a while though he had never knitted before. David and Christian then took over. They hadn’t been getting on lately. The two knitted way after everone else had stopped. They insisted on taking the knitting home with them. They ended up posting the completed loop back to me from their holiday destination.

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Knitting Piece #2 (Paris) 2004, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

The comfort of repetition and tactile nature of the knitting encourages participants in the knitting circle to sit a while and chat. An unspoken agreement is made between all the knitters as the piece is being created so that the speed and tension evens out, allowing the activity to go on uninterrupted.

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Knitting Piece #1 (London) 2004, Bermondsey, London

Each knitted stitch entered into the loop contains a thought, then passed around as if on an ancient form of internet.

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