Imogen Davis - Jetsampler (#1-12)
Plastic retail waste, offcut and waste timber, cotton thread Whole installation, 90cm x 120cm, individual pieces – 30cm x 30cm, 2025
Jetsampler explores the ways that single use soft plastics could be manipulated and transformed in order to replace current fabrics in a post-irreversible-climate-destruction world where many crops like cotton are no longer. Both sarcastic speculation and warning, this work takes the form of a sampler quilt through unique square blocks to reflect on the history of material reuse in what has traditionally been considered women’s work. While the craft is elevated to art status and celebrated in a gallery setting, the reality of the harm that this profligately used material brings to humans and our world alike is everlasting and looms close by, much like the microplastics in our veins.
Plastic retail waste, offcut and waste timber, cotton thread Whole installation, 90cm x 120cm, individual pieces – 30cm x 30cm, 2025
Jetsampler explores the ways that single use soft plastics could be manipulated and transformed in order to replace current fabrics in a post-irreversible-climate-destruction world where many crops like cotton are no longer. Both sarcastic speculation and warning, this work takes the form of a sampler quilt through unique square blocks to reflect on the history of material reuse in what has traditionally been considered women’s work. While the craft is elevated to art status and celebrated in a gallery setting, the reality of the harm that this profligately used material brings to humans and our world alike is everlasting and looms close by, much like the microplastics in our veins.
Plastic retail waste, offcut and waste timber, cotton thread Whole installation, 90cm x 120cm, individual pieces – 30cm x 30cm, 2025
Jetsampler explores the ways that single use soft plastics could be manipulated and transformed in order to replace current fabrics in a post-irreversible-climate-destruction world where many crops like cotton are no longer. Both sarcastic speculation and warning, this work takes the form of a sampler quilt through unique square blocks to reflect on the history of material reuse in what has traditionally been considered women’s work. While the craft is elevated to art status and celebrated in a gallery setting, the reality of the harm that this profligately used material brings to humans and our world alike is everlasting and looms close by, much like the microplastics in our veins.