Liz O’Connell weaves with glass threads to creates glass textiles pieces that explore themes of domestic work and invisible labour.
The work featured in Woven Stories is inspired by researching her parents’ experience of working in the textile mills and wider weaving narratives developed through her exploration of the Archive at Sunny Bank Mills and her fascination with selvedge – the waste from weaving. These pieces also reference our psychological connections to thread, such as: fixing and mending, the state of ‘losing one’s thread’, and being ‘threadbare’.
