IRENA WILLMOTT
Irena is interested in ideas about boundaries and connectivity. She likes to explore them, often metaphorically, through the process of transforming wool into felt, sometimes deconstructing it. Specifically, she works with her body and felt, and also uses this method in exchange with other “materials”, such as metal, wood, fabric, iron, hair, and currently with medical waste products, such as blister packs.
She enjoys the emerging connections within this felted entanglement, exploring ideas around their objectboundaryhood. She intends this alchemy of materials to shed light on in-between spaces that transcend the objects themselves, where we can experience how we feel through how we “felt”.
After studying and gaining an MA in Fine Art, with Distinction, her collaborative work, “Laid To Rest” was exhibited at “10 days“ at Winchester Cathedral in 2015 and won the festival award.
Instagram www.instagram.com/irena.willmott/
She enjoys the emerging connections within this felted entanglement, exploring ideas around their objectboundaryhood. She intends this alchemy of materials to shed light on in-between spaces that transcend the objects themselves, where we can experience how we feel through how we “felt”.
After studying and gaining an MA in Fine Art, with Distinction, her collaborative work, “Laid To Rest” was exhibited at “10 days“ at Winchester Cathedral in 2015 and won the festival award.
Instagram www.instagram.com/irena.willmott/