About Jacky Puzey
photograph by Carl Newland for La Pocha Nostra/Arnolfini
Costume
Performance
Textile
Installation
Collaboration
I use costume, collaboration and installation to make work about shared histories, dress, place, and memory. I work with collective memories, personal stories, and postcolonial and multicultural realities. My art practice is both creative and interventionist; costume is both spectacle and familiar, textile patterns question cultural links through ornamentation, and conversations run across cultures. Seeking social, convivial meeting spaces through artwork becomes a radical strategy, a textile intervention.
Jacky Puzey is currently completing her PhD, and will be undertaking more work on the the Shade project once the PhD is complete in late 2012.