Dorothy Ann Daly
Dorothy Ann Daly makes crochet pieces and combines
them with embossed and handmade paper. The crochet develops using different
stitches and cottons to produce various textures. The type of stitch, number and
direction all create different marks, patterns and
qualities.
Krickle Krackle is an expression that I first heard
in relation to children's drawings, maybe we would say scribbling in English. My
son came home from kindergarten one day, he was very upset that one of his
friends had said that he could only do krickle krackle, while trying to comfort
him, it became clear to me, that that was what I had been trying to do with my
work. Since then I have been trying to make Krickle Krackle crochet. I make
drawings with the cotton, I start and allow the piece to develop, I use
different stitches to make marks, I try not to worry about what it looks like
and what it is going to be. To approach it like a pencil drawing. Sometimes I
make drawings in my notebook and then try to crochet these. I use old pieces of
needlework as sources for my work, I am interested in the women, who made the
pieces and in their lives. I have some work that was made by my family and other
pieces that I found in markets. I use crochet in my work with hand made and
embossed papers. I am interested in using the crochet cotton to make different
textures and qualities; I use various stitches and thicknesses of cotton to
achieve this. I see crochet as a means of drawing and making sculptural pieces;
this is what I'm exploring with this work. I start a piece of crochet and it
develops as I work, it becomes clear if it needs to be in a collage or if it is
a sculpture in itself. Some pieces I make as drawings that I pin directly on to
the wall. I use crochet as a fine artist.
I really like the work of Dorothy Ann Daly; I love
the use of neutral materials. I think it makes the work stand out more than id
it was very rich with colour. I think over the summer I’m going to teach myself
how to crochet because I think it’s beautiful, and really open with what you can
do with it.
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