Freddie Robins
Freddie Robins is a knitted textiles artist who studied at Middlesex university. She uses her knitting to explore contemporary issues of domestic, gender and the human condition, but also the preconceptions surrounding knitting as a craft its self.
This piece above is probably my favourite piece from Freddie. Its a self portrait based on the well recognised image of Saint Sebastian being martyred. But instead of arrows pricing her skin she has replaced them with knitting needles. With this piece she is trying to make you think about the stereotypical image that craft, especially knitting has with being a passive, benign activity, and also who you can no longer fly with knitting needles and there are no longer on display in charity shops and they are seen as almost a weapon.
I really like this piece as it makes you think about how people now look at craft and what the preconceptions of crafts are as a whole.
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