1997
machine and hand knitted yarn, buttons

Site specific installation for “The garden pARTy” 
(Feeringbury VII), Feeringbury Manor, Colchester, Essex. 

Hand knitted cosies by Molly Robins.

GARDEN PARTY

TEA PARTY

TEA COSY

TREE COSY

1997
machine knitted wool 960 × 520 mm
In the collection of the Crafts Council, London.

Hand of Good, Hand of God is one of my earliest pieces. It followed on from my series of Odd Gloves. It plays with mathematics and pattern writing. The large glove being a multiplication of the number of stitches and rows in a regular knitted glove, the smaller being a division. The large glove is 3 1/2 larger than a regular glove, the smaller is 1/4 smaller. I have made this piece as large as I could without having to seam pieces together. My aim is to make a much bigger piece (possibly to be called A Bigger and Better God) with more “layers” of gloves. This could either be done by seaming pieces together or by the use of large, industrial machinery, which I have begun to use in the production of my large-scale work, Anyway 2002.

40:40 – forty objects for forty years

Online exhibition celebrating forty years of the Crafts Council Collection featuring Hand of Good, Hand of God
http://onviewonline.craftscouncil.org.uk/4040/object/T165









Photography: Heini Schneebeli, courtesy of Crafts Council

Odd Gloves – Giles, Polly, Conrad, Peggy, 1997
machine knitted wool, mohair
approx 240 × 160 mm
Giles, Polly and Conrad in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Peggy in Private Collection

Odd Gloves – Michael, Edwin, David
, 1998
machine knitted wool, machine knitted shirring elastic 

100 × 100 mm, 140 × 410 mm, 300 × 260 mm

David in Private collection

Pattern to hand-knit Conrad gloves, from Victoria & Albert Museum website

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/k/knit-a-work-of-art-from-a-free-pattern/

Heart 2 Heart, Kidney Stones, Spots on your Lungs, Paisley Kidney, Lily Livered and Floral Liver, 1996
screen-printed cotton, wadding,150 × 125 mm – 240 × 920 mm

People often ask “What is it?” Shouldn’t we know what our kidneys, let alone our hearts, really look like? These pieces are not intended to educate but entertain and stimulate. “Body Parts” combine Freddie Robins’ interest in word games, medicine and humour eg: turning fabrics such as iron-burnt cotton drill into a visualization of Heartburn.
(Statement taken from the catalogue for Artextiles, 
Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery 1996)

Photography: Douglas Atfield