Heather Burwell - Artist

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​​'Spatiality is inherently temporal, occupying a place in the present whilst stretching back into the past'.

Common Threads

A series of linocut hand printed textile and subsequent sculptural indexical plaster works, inspired by ancestral and historical research into the female working-class quiltmakers in Northeast England.  

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​Nostalgia 

A distillation and fragmentation of the above series, enlarged and digitally reproduced textile.

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'Nostalgia is a self-conscious emotion of desire, part fiction, part amnesia, directed as some aspect of the past'

​​'Spatiality is inherently temporal, occupying a place in the present whilst stretching back into th

I am the place I am 

Site specific immersive installation at University of Hertfordshire in 2022 exploring place, time, spatiality and memory

Hand painted and printed walls, antique mirror, oil painting of clock plus audio of ticking clock