Abi Braley

The First Rainbow, 2021,

wool, 120 x 10 cm

The first finished knit created by the artist. Showing there is a time before knowing a craft and making it your own. Nostalgia playing a big part in keeping this object with them through many stages of life.

Abi Braley

Her work fluctuates between two parallel timelines: that of objects seen in relation to each other and objects seen as windows into autobiography. The work questions the human everyday, with an emphasis on typical, mundane ‘negativities’ that one is often encouraged to suppress. Via reappropriated objects, the work reveals failure and ridiculousness as important components of a full and realistic look at life. At once visceral and considered, her practice renders as productive small aspects of the social—absurdity, clutter, stupidity, etc—that tend to be seen pejoratively.