For Annoula

An exhibition piece for Clothes for Chairs, Melbourne Design Week 2026

My piece reimagines seating through memory, imagined memory, and inherited memory. Using a second-hand chair frame that would hold memories for another, I reflect on my late grandmother, and the emotions carried within spaces of sitting together. The process became a way of thinking and feeling through grief, longing and ongoing love - wishing I could experience these memories now, asking, sharing and absorbing more.

When I think of seating, I think of warmth, affection, laughter, photographs on walls, and shared food from my grandmother’s endless fruit and prosforo (blessed bread) supply next to her arm chair, ready for me to eat. I think about fragments of conversations I remember clearly and those implanted.

These memories informed all aspects of the chair, from materials to colours and process. The yarn comes from remnants of my textile practice, which is grounded in generational handicrafts and the quiet, therapeutic rhythm of making. The colours and textiles were chosen intuitively, guided by feeling.

The selected photographs reflect the non‑linear nature of memory - comprising both what I remember and what I’ve inherited, from clear recollections to those more blurred or imagined. The therapeutic nature of weaving, coupled with photographs and remnants, seeks to encourage both artist and viewer to hold their own memories close, and pause an extra moment to reflect on them.

Made on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.