Jaipur Walls

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Recent visits to Jaipur had a profound influence on Amanda’s current work series ‘Jaipur Walls’. A sequence of making large, medium and smaller fabric and paper outcomes has been quite deliberate over the last year of Covid lockdowns and in-between times. At each stage the making process has involved cutting, tearing, layering, positioning, gradually fixing elements in place.

Amanda has aimed to create a dissonance of colour a visual cacophony reflecting what she experienced and remembers about the Pink City. Working with paper is immediate, direct and fresh. Mimicking these qualities in fabric proved challenging, especially when handling thickness and sometimes large surface areas of fabric through the limited width of the machine throat when free-motion stitching. The large fabrics took physical strength and it was tricky maintaining the freedom of line easily achieved when working with paper.