You Are the Journey (an embroidered intervention)

You Are the Journey began as a collaborative project with the artist R.A.Webb that proposed the use of the Hythe Ferry ten-journey ticket as a medium for interactive public art. Six years later, the original used You Are the Journey tickets involved actual textiles as a further medium for communal engagement. This reconfiguration of You Are the Journey has been exhibited independently from the artwork's original maritime location at One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden (2015), Frameless Gallery, London (2015) and at the Contextile16 Textile Art Biennial, Guimaraes, Portugal (2016). Finally, the work was exhibited at Migrations curated by Professor Jessica Hemmings at Huddersfield Art Gallery, West Yorkshire (2016). Jessica Hemmings, in her statement to support the exhibition states that:
'The portability of textiles - the ease with which they move around the globe - and their hybrid position within the world of craft, design and art make them particularly apt carriers of culture. Alongside this portability is the reality that the textile often exists as a multiple. While textiles roam, others stay closer to home. Migrations has travelled to America, Ireland, Australia and now England. Brought together are contemporary artists, designers and an author who all work at the intersection of culture and use multiple, portable textiles as their vehicle.' (2016)