POA

This is the piece that won "Innovative use of textiles" at the Fine Art Textiles Award, although every stitch is done in the style of the c14th. I was writing a book on opus when I had a random goth moment and included a grim reaper project, whilst researching medieval images of skeletons I was reminded of the tale of the 3 living and the 3 dead, where 3 young ne'er do wells go out into the forest and meet 3 walking dead, who lived lives of such wickedness that death will not take them and so they are forced to walk the earth as rotting corpses. I didn't think young men today would learn the same lesson, so I decided to update it. the dead are taken from a medieval illustration of the tale, but I moved the setting to a grubby railway arch in the city and did a lot of research into urban streetwear. The graffiti I saw pasted over a road sign on the A1 and thought it was hilariously stupid.