Eve Harker creates vibrant ecosystems that spool playfully across the floor and walls. She works with found and reused textiles, using crochet and spinning to make expressive, tactile sculptures.

Eve’s choice to reuse wool from charity shops is a conscious decision to minimise her environmental impact and avoid today’s consumerism culture. She also uses her spinning wheel to connect with the raw materials, further linking her practice to traditional methods, the land and what nature can provide.

Eve’s crafting techniques challenge digital advances, portraying fluidity through the soft materials. The elements of unpredictability highlight the ambiguity of nature and the surprising ways in which it can manifest. Handmaking is intrinsic to Eve’s process, it enables her to feel the medium, generating an affiliation to the wools’ properties. The repetitive rhythm of production is intuitive, therapeutic and highly labour-intensive. Knots, loops and material manipulations mimic organic arrangements and emphasize the fragility of each form.

Her process encourages the idea of ‘thinking through making’ to inform her decisions, often referencing the techniques used within the Arts and Crafts Movement. The malleability of the wool allows Eve the freedom she seeks to create enchanting ecosystems or focus on single elements that express stand-alone subjects.