[2025]
Queer Joy
Exhibited at the D*List in October 2025 and at Sidewalk Gallery, Studio One Toi Tū during the month of February 2026.
The Queer Joy Community Quilt is the culmination of a queer and disabled-led project, a series of connecting and making workshops grounded in whanaungatanga and manaakitanga, facilitated in an intentionally slow and relational way. The patchwork quilt we exhibit is a labour of aroha and kotahitanga, an expression of our intersectional understandings of queer joy and the result of skill sharing, solidarity and commitment to creating.
From the found fabrics to the support of our whānau in attending the workshops to the cultural and personal histories informing our compositions, these squares, while attributed to individuals, are intrinsically connected to our broader contexts.
Finally, by inviting our communities to hand-stitch the layers of our quilt together, we acknowledge their part in our joy. Queer joy is meant to be shared.
Queer Joy
Community Quilt
Exhibited at the D*List in October 2025 and at Sidewalk Gallery, Studio One Toi Tū during the month of February 2026.
The Queer Joy Community Quilt is the culmination of a queer and disabled-led project, a series of connecting and making workshops grounded in whanaungatanga and manaakitanga, facilitated in an intentionally slow and relational way. The patchwork quilt we exhibit is a labour of aroha and kotahitanga, an expression of our intersectional understandings of queer joy and the result of skill sharing, solidarity and commitment to creating.
From the found fabrics to the support of our whānau in attending the workshops to the cultural and personal histories informing our compositions, these squares, while attributed to individuals, are intrinsically connected to our broader contexts.
Finally, by inviting our communities to hand-stitch the layers of our quilt together, we acknowledge their part in our joy. Queer joy is meant to be shared.
[2025]
Digital photo quilt
Inspired by my love of film photography and quilting, I experimented with a digital quilt. This one is made in Indesign where I laid out the quilt design much like I would normally and dropped in my film pictures, scaling to different sizes and highlighting different moments.
Digital photo quilt
Inspired by my love of film photography and quilting, I experimented with a digital quilt. This one is made in Indesign where I laid out the quilt design much like I would normally and dropped in my film pictures, scaling to different sizes and highlighting different moments.
[2024]
Star quilt
I designed this quilt as a gift for my partner in illustrator and made a pattern so my mum could construct the quilt.
Star quilt
I designed this quilt as a gift for my partner in illustrator and made a pattern so my mum could construct the quilt.
[2023]
Quilt design workshop
As part of my capstone project Crafting Allies, I experimented with ways of making quilt designing accessible to novices. I first tried cutting out cork pattern pieces and then settled on using fabric squares made from either one type of fabric or patchwork squares made up of two types of fabric. I tested this method of quilt design with my classmates who enjoyed the constrained creativity.
Quilt design workshop
As part of my capstone project Crafting Allies, I experimented with ways of making quilt designing accessible to novices. I first tried cutting out cork pattern pieces and then settled on using fabric squares made from either one type of fabric or patchwork squares made up of two types of fabric. I tested this method of quilt design with my classmates who enjoyed the constrained creativity.
[2021]
Checkered green quilt
This quilt was designed on Illustrator and constructed by my mum and I, then quilted by my mum.
Checkered green quilt
This quilt was designed on Illustrator and constructed by my mum and I, then quilted by my mum.