Fabrications / Verdant Works / 2023

Fabrications
Verdant Works, Dundee
5 August - 26 November 2023

Fabrications is about acts of making and making things up. Often taking a childhood photo as a starting point, Becky Brewis handmakes large, mixed-media jute embroideries which explore the outer edges of memory – where fact becomes fantasy, and the personal becomes mythic.

Jute is tough and hard-wearing but also yielding and easily frayed at the edges, making it an expressive medium for exploring memory, physicality and the passage of time.

These five works are presented in the context of the social history galleries at Verdant Works, where human stories are told through the lens of the jute-making process.