It was a joy to be approached by iconic Newcastle slow fashion label High Tea With Mrs Woo with an invitation to create a sculptural paper installation for their beautiful co-shared store with Studio Melt. They wanted to activate their window space with art for the City of Newcastle’s month-long Autumn Alive festival, which offered a program of cultural events, live music, and place activation initiatives.

In keeping with the aesthetic and ethos of the label, which creates eloquent one-off pieces, “meaningful clothing for every day, honouring lifecycles and the passage of time.”

I decided to reincarnate ‘The Chandelier’, a paper installation I originally made for Maitland Regional Art Gallery in 2018. I upcycled sections of it into new shapes and forms, knotting and folding the paper, inspired by paper elements and objects used in Japanese shinto rituals.