Use Your Hands for Happiness was a site-specific installation developed for Margate Festival “NOW”.  The project comprised large-scale abstract textile works installed within the artist’s studio, accompanied by open studio days, talks, and workshops.

The work extended earlier research undertaken during a residency with Craft Central, informed by archival study at The Geffrye Museum. Drawing on histories of domestic making, thrift, and material reuse, the project examined how textile practices operate as both cultural inheritance and contemporary condition.

Constructed using screen printing, appliqué, and stitch with reclaimed fabrics, the works emphasised scale, colour, and material presence. The installation focused on the physical and visual impact of hand-worked materials, inviting sustained attention to texture, accumulation, and questions of  ‘work’ embedded within cloth.