2025 Commendation Prize

Patchwork of Names
Mixed media (paint, textiles, and found objects)
W: 65cm x H: 140cm

Is it a quilt, a shelf, or a cover? These labels offer fleeting certainty, yet nothing truly stays permanent. This piece took shape over a year – through collecting, assembling, and holding pieces of life together. Made with mindful attention to each moment, it holds spaces of chaos and calm, stillness and movement – just as life does.

Each fragment carries traces of a shifting dance between the internal and external: changing thoughts, moving emotions, passing seasons, and surrounding sounds. Some parts are carefully mended, others are left raw. Together, they weave a living reflection of how identity unravels, adapts, and comes together again. Like all of us, this work is in constant motion – interwoven, unfinished, yet always whole in its becoming.