Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts - Inuit Spirit Realm

I collaborated with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts on a project in which I chose an item from their collection to research and create work about. ​This project focused on Inuit masks, inspired by an Inuit walrus mask in the collection. I aimed to explore the concept of the Inuit spirit realm and spirituality, illuminating an often overlooked culture and reconnecting the object with its original usage. ​I worked with etching and blind embossing, working towards a finished print representing both the spirit realm and the vast whiteness of the Northen Canadian landscape. ​An edition of etchings were featured in the Sainsbury Centre shop. An etching was also featured in the exhibition Two Lives in Colour at East Gallery, Norwich. I also created a silk devoré scarf, inspired by the ethereal nature of the spirit realm and by the wearablity of both the masks and a scarf.