Sleep Tight Quilt

The result of many hours of drilling, filing, knotting and tying hundreds of champagne-cork plaques together, “Sleep Tight Quilt” is a square-grid fabric “quilt” echoing both more formal quilt-making, and the Australian “waggas” of the 19th and 20th centuries, assembled from materials that were to hand: second-hand, re-used and recycled. Here the materials used are symbols and by-products of consumption, diverted from landfill but making up a quilt providing no warmth - rather a reminder of the greed, excesses and wastefulness of humanity in the Anthropocene. And after such consumption, one would sleep tight indeed.