SENSITISED & SENTIMENTAL

6 September 2024 - 17 November 2024

Melissa Spratt - I thought that everyone goes through life feeling this sensitive...

I THOUGHT THAT EVERYONE GOES THROUGH LIFE FEELING THIS SENSITIVE… 2024
finger-knitted wool on canvas
60 × 85 cm
Image courtesy the artist © The artist

In SENSITISED & SENTIMENTAL, regional artist Melissa Spratt explores her experience of being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), through a series of textile works. Using wool, a fibre which can both soothe and irritate, Spratt elucidates the experience of being an HSP by sharing short statements, and longer stream of consciousness style phrases, to convey the flood of emotions and thoughts she endures as an HSP.

A Tweed Regional Gallery initiative. An outcome of the PLATFORM program.

Art Play with Melissa Spratt

Sensitised and Sentimental - Melissa Spratt catalogue(PDF, 4MB)