Hi, I’m Ali and I am artist currently living and working in Cardiff. I make work in a variety of mediums from textile, paint, print and more. My practise focuses on themes to do with queerness, history and the queer body. I use history, found objects and introspection as the provenance for what I make.
My work is sourced from prior historical work ranging from the medieval to now. This specifically applies to my quilt and textile work. In works such as ‘Day and Night’ and ‘Flower’ I use processes inspired by the old English works of ‘Opus Anglicanum’. Whereas in ‘Lonely Fag’ I use elements found in ‘Provence’ quilts during the 1700s in France. I weave a modern twist to older practises to bring in contemporary ideas around queerness and the body.
This method also applies to the other mediums I work in. I will let the materials speak for themselves. Some processes will lend themselves to a certain mode of speaking. But they will share consistent themes and have a personal relation to myself