Lauren Mavromati Bourke is a multidisciplinary textile artist exploring the entanglements of memory, migration, gender, queer ecologies and borders. Through making, gathering and collective acts of creation, they explore how textile practices carry personal histories and connect people to lineage, place and community.
A selection of works below
TEXTILES (RE)MEMBER ?
Through the art of weaving, textiles (re)member ? brings together threads of personal and collective history, creating tangible keepsakes that honour place, migration, and shared knowledge.
WEAVING OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
Through placing a wooden loom on the street, along with spray paint and fabric, the local community of Ayioi Omoloyites
SIGA SIGA // SLOWLY SLOWLY
Through the intertwined and everyday rituals of weaving and shelling, we initiate a dialogue rooted in reimagining ancestral practice, nourishing the knowledge lost across generations, disconnecting and connecting Cyprus and Australia.
FOR ANNA
Comprising both what I remember and what I’ve inherited, from clear recollections to those more blurred or imagined. The therapeutic nature of weaving, coupled with photographs and remnants, seeks to encourage both artist and viewer to hold their own memories close, and pause an extra moment to reflect on them.
MAVROMATI
Mavromati, my small textile brand, is the product of generational textile handicrafts, taking on the therapeutic practice of knitting while also playing with gender and queerness through these hand knitted pieces.