Another Day's Light (II)

2025

‘Another Day’s Light’ is woven from linen and hemp dyed with local plants and cyanotype chemistry. Cyanotype is a low-toxicity iron-based photographic process: the blue colour is produced upon exposure to UV light (sunlight). I have used this process not to create an image, but rather to record the action of sunlight itself; to ritually capture photons which are then woven directly into my work. I used exposure times varying from 8 minutes 20 seconds (the time taken for sunlight to reach the earth) to one week. The dyes, and also the yarns, were made from plants which absorbed sunlight during their lifetimes, thereby adding to the complexity of data attached to the work. Weaving is an ordered process, but in this piece various dates of photographic exposure, plant growth and gathering, dyeing, unravelling and re-weaving reference many layers of time which are juxtaposed and overlapping; it may be viewed in the order in which it was woven but any logical sequence of events is impossible to discern. Another Day’s light (II) was my final major project for MA Fine Art (Online) via Falmouth University, and was exhibited at The Riverside Museum in Reading.

 Installation view (as seen from entrance), Riverside Museum, Reading. 16th-23rd July 2025. Woven linen and hemp suspended from steel sections.  Dimensions approximately 15m x 80cm.  
Installation view (as seen from back wall), Riverside Museum, Reading. 16th-23rd July 2025. Woven linen and hemp suspended from steel sections.  Dimensions approximately 15m x 80cm.

Another Day's Light (detail), Riverside Museum, Reading. 16th-23rd July 2025. Woven linen and hemp suspended from steel sections. Overall dimensions approximately 15m x 80cm.

Another Day's Light (Key), Riverside Museum, Reading. 16th-23rd July 2025.

Another Day's Light (detail), Riverside Museum, Reading. 16th-23rd July 2025. Woven linen and hemp suspended from steel sections. Overall dimensions approximately 15m x 80cm.

Communal artwork made by 71 weavers (or weaving teams), approximately three metres long. Further information about this project can be viewed here.

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