This body of work like much of Setterington’s textile output references both textile history and biographical detail. It commemorates the clearing and selling of “home” and the numerous memories and emotions provoked by such an act.
The house image was and is used in American quilts by the new settlers, a way of putting down roots and establishing territory, in many ways this work is the opposite. Likewise pincushions were often made as a keepsake to celebrate birth or wedding, again mine are a momento-mori to a place and time.
Selected pieces from this series have been seen in recent 62 Group Exhibitions and in The Dartboard for Witches at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales (summer 2010)
Published: 14th July 2010
Themes: autobiography, domestic identity,
