This new body of work begins not with finished cloth, but with attention.

Over the coming months, I will be using this space to document a period of research and development supported by a VACMA Edinburgh bursary. The project begins in Edinburgh, through sketchbooks, walking routes, weather notes, mapping exercises and early textile thinking. Rather than moving straight into resolved pieces, I want to begin more slowly: by noticing how a line can hold a journey, how weather can become mark-making, and how cloth might act as a surface for memory, movement and return.

My practice often moves between Scotland and Chitral, between wool traditions, landscapes and systems of making. For this project, I am interested in what happens when mapping becomes less factual and more tactile — when a route is drawn from memory, when wind is recorded as rhythm, when a shoreline begins to resemble a seam or hem.

At this early stage, I am gathering rather than concluding. Sketchbooks will hold fragments: paths, slopes, interruptions, repeated gestures, small weather archives, words that return. These will eventually inform a new series of textile “map studies” developed through drawing, print and hand embroidery.

Field Notes will follow that process as it unfolds.