'Cocoon Series'

SaltSpace is delighted to present 'Cocoon Series' a solo show by Lily Roscoe. The show is open from the 17th - 21st August, 11am-4pm daily.

Cocoon Series (2023), created in response to Rozsika Parker’s (1984) the Subversive Stitch, follows a line of enquiry into the use, context and connotations of textile fibre traditions.

Such processes are considered domestic, considered craft, and most often considered women's work. Through their employment in fine art sculpture, Roscoe hopes to challenge this by subverting these limiting perceptions. By applying the processes to a new format, within a new context, Roscoe hopes to help give the material a platform thus renewing its definitions.

Through mimicking the natural biological processes conducted by insects, Cocoon Series investigates fibre’s presence in the natural world, considering organisms such as arachnids and silk worms as a metaphor for the quiet, methodical, intricate work of the seamstress.