Kirsty Andrew | Motherlines

Devore Silkscreen Printed And Reclaimed 70S Bricks
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Dimensions (WxH): 132 x 290cm

Kirsty Andrew is a London-based multidisciplinary artist and researcher currently undertaking an MRes at the Royal College of Art. Working across print, photography, ceramics, textiles, artists’ books, sound, and installation, her practice explores memory, home, and the mother–daughter relationship. Drawing on personal experience, she investigates how family histories and domestic spaces leave emotional and material traces that continue to shape care, identity, and ways of making. Central to her practice is the translation of images, voices, narratives, and objects across different media. Rather than treating materials as separate disciplines, she develops iterative processes through which ideas are translated, layered, and transformed. A recurring breeze-block pattern from the boundary wall of her childhood home illustrates this approach. Originally drawn directly onto a lithographic stone and printed, the image was then photographed, collaged, reworked into a silkscreen, and devoré printed onto large suspended lengths of fabric. Through each transformation, the image shifted in scale, materiality, and meaning, mirroring the changing nature of memory itself. Influenced by literature, psychoanalysis, oral history, and archival research, Andrew’s work considers making as an act of care, creating works that reflect on the fragile ways maternal histories are remembered, carried, and transformed across generations.