Art @ Eighth Day

What's Installed at Eighth Day Café
Knitting Worlds - an installation by Jacqueline Rose
Showing: Fridday 11^th November - Saturday 24^th December 2011

Jacqueline Rose has taken 3 knitting patterns from her extensive collection as the starting point for the silly and intriguing creation, that is ‘Knitting Worlds’. From each pattern, she has created a 3-d domestic scene, incorporating the original image, but which is much more alarming and disturbing than any knitting pattern was ever supposed to be.

Each scene contains one or two 12 inch high dolls, dressed exactly the same as the models in the knitting patterns. Perfectly-formed doll-size jumpers are the prime attraction, knit to scale and beautiful in their simplicity and complexity. The setting of each knitting pattern is recreated with props and furniture made in best ‘Blue Peter’ fashion from bits of wood, fabric, plastic, paper and glue. Inspired by years of Saturday mornings at her Granny’s house making doll’s house accessories, Jacqueline Rose has created quirky domestic scenes the dolls to inhabit. The techniques may be simple (cutting and sticking) but the settings are anything but. Thought-provoking and hinting at the complications domesticity can bring, each one is a delightful microcosmic explosion of domestic tension.

Jacqueline told us, ‘I look at the patterns in detail and make a list of all the words that spring to mind. Then I try to tell the whole story of the pattern in just one word. From there, I imagine a scene around that one word and start to build. I repeat this until I get to a point where a story begins to form. With Scene 3, ‘That Sinkin’ Feelin’’, I started by thinking the male model looked quite vain, like he was admiring himself in a mirror. It’s a short step from there to ‘reflections’ and from there to situating him in a fish tank.’

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