Basket Cases

A series of Baskets created for 'Resilience' an Exhibition at DC1 Gallery, Eastbourne 20019 exploring mental health and well being. The series entitled 'Basket Cases' explores the stigma surrounding basket making as a back of the classroom activity often given to patients in institutions as a form of occupational therapy in the past. The repetitive calming process of making and sequence counting to form a weaved or coiled object is now more recognized by health professionals as a means to improve mental wellbeing. Each piece started with a very limited range of seasonal material and detritus found in a hedgerow and represents a work in progress. Each basket lead to the next. This approach to making can be challenging, engaging and exciting.