Meredith Jones is a mother, sister, daughter, teacher, student.
She lives and works between art & design existing in both and neither worlds.
Life and art is all about the process there is no destination.
She lives and works between art & design existing in both and neither worlds.
Life and art is all about the process there is no destination.
Current Research Question
How can textiles and object- based practices make invisible forms of history and memory experientially knowable and material visible
inviting us to care for what feels unsettled?
My current artistic research combines traditional women’s craft techniques of stitch and embroidery with materials embedded with traces from the human and more-than-human to create new beings which act as vessels of memory and transformation. Through repetitive gestures and intuitive making, I explore how materials store emotional, social and intergenerational knowledge through touch. My work often integrates structured grids, tensioned threads and waxed rocks and textiles, referencing the fragility and resilience of experience in relation to the environments we both create and inherit.
inviting us to care for what feels unsettled?
My current artistic research combines traditional women’s craft techniques of stitch and embroidery with materials embedded with traces from the human and more-than-human to create new beings which act as vessels of memory and transformation. Through repetitive gestures and intuitive making, I explore how materials store emotional, social and intergenerational knowledge through touch. My work often integrates structured grids, tensioned threads and waxed rocks and textiles, referencing the fragility and resilience of experience in relation to the environments we both create and inherit.
I am drawn to the dialogue between transparent materials and rigid structures, spaces where systems of control both collapse and co-exist. Deconstructed craft techniques and fibre-based languages become acts of resistance against colonial and patriarchal structures of mastery and open pathways towards more entangled and embodied futures. My work imagines textiles not just as art or craft but as complex affective technologies of being and becoming.
mjones54359@ecuad.ca @questionablestitching