Walking

I am interested in the historical representation of art through textiles, its links to craft and domesticity and its relationship to current practice. I collaborate with both professional and amateur women to create documentary style films.

In the film, Walking, I am reflecting on the notion of knitting historically as a necessity reminiscent of what would have been needed in the past.

Walking was screened in Triptychs 1 biannual film screening showing 3 selected works simultaneously on 3 parallel screens, curated by Alice Bradshaw at the Media Centre, Huddersfield. Triptychs is a biannual film screening programme showing 3 selected works simultaneously on 3 parallel screens, curated by Alice Bradshaw.

For the inaugural screening 'Triptychs #1' the three selected films present reflective moments in time alluding to birth-life-death cycles. The films are looped alongside each other, repeating at their own rate. This looping is also played out in the cyclic nature of the film subjects and interwoven references they contain.

Smith's film is a short, playful film that condenses major life choices and repercussions into 10 seconds, ambiguously tongue in cheek, that is reminiscent of internet meme culture. Miller's film is a looped tracking shot of the artist that reflects on the historically conjoined activities of knitting and walking for us to draw comparisons. Harbridge's film is a meandering camera pan that echoes Miller's walk as well as portraying antiquated, yet preserved, subject matters. Harbridge's text overlay on the film mirrors Smith's and draws attention to the textural objects presented in the film.

All three films have no audio track and indeed Harbridge's film investigates silence in her work. Instead of audio to follow, we can follow the camera and/or the text on screen. The films can be dipped in and out of in any order – there is not a prescribed order to view the selection – more so a reflective meander may through them at your own pace may be best fitting.