I have lived through the long and slower years before the advent of mobile phones and internet when people still left notes on tables for one another and wrote and received letters from far and wide. An electric typewriter was an exciting asset speeding up the previously painstaking, sometimes obsessive recording of thoughts , ideas, proposals and letters by hand. These now largely redundant technologies have a materiality to them which intrigued me as ways of communication started to change so radically . I remember opening up the piles of used typewriter cartridges and wanting to do something with this condensed physical history of my own intense ‘literary’ activity.

Glove Affair Radstock SWTG exhibition

Typewriter ribbon knitted dresses

One of two hand crocheted gloves made from used typewriter ribbons