A textile designer exploring memory, place and material storytelling through tactile surfaces. My work combines industrial South Yorkshire textures with Turkish influences, using Jesmonite. Embedded fragments and modular tile forms preserve personal heritage through contemporary design.
INHERITED LANDSCAPE
Industrial textures reference South Yorkshire’s coal, steel and manufacturing heritage.
Coastal colours and fragmented surfaces reflect memories of Marmaris and the Aegean landscape.
Material Memory
This project explores how memory can be held through material, surface and form. By combining Jesmonite with coal, rust, sand, shells and pigment, the work translates personal connections to South Yorkshire and coastal areas of Turkey into a tactile collection of tile designs.
“To describe the properties of materials is to tell the stories of what happens to them as they flow, mix and mutate.”-Tim Ingold, Materials against Materiality
Installation view presenting the final wall piece alongside supporting tile samples, showing the collection as a complete material narrative.
Selected Jesmonite samples explore how colour, spacing and surface texture can translate personal memory into modular form.
The final wall-hanging piece combines interchangeable tiles within a dark gridded frame, creating a fragmented archive of place and memory.
Material Harmony – industrial and coastal embedded aggregate combined through soft pigment movement.
Terrazzo shavings and darker mineral fragments create contrast between sea-worn surfaces and industrial residue.
Industrial Memory – coal dust and rust fragments are embedded into the Jesmonite to reference South Yorkshire’s material landscape.
Terracotta tones, coal dust and sand create an ‘earthy’ surface, connecting to industrial decay.
Through modular tiles, embedded fragments and material contrast, ‘Inherited Landscapes’ preserves personal heritage as a tactile archive by connecting industrial South Yorkshire with coastal Turkey through personal encounters, memory, surface and form.
