Cameron Stead

This piece is part of a series of knitted artworks in dialogue with the matrilineal creative and labour practices of my ancestors. My mother taught me the basics of knitting as a young person, but only in recent years have I expanded upon those skills and sought ways to incorporate knitting into my broader practice.

Requiring hours of concentration and a precise rhythm of repetition, knitting has afforded me time to unite the dichotomous influences that inform my practice and being – the masculine and feminine, the labourer and intellect, the fine art painter and crafter at heart.