isura: Treasure of Water

Year:                 2026

Materials:        Adire and Coffee-dyed textile on canvas

Dimension:     107 x 107 cm (42 x 42 in)

Status:             Available

Unique Original / One of a kind

Includes a signed Certificate of Authenticity

About the ișura: Treasure of Water

While making Treasure of Water, I kept thinking about movement.

 

The Adire had already travelled before reaching my Manchester studio. As I cut and repositioned the fabric, I became aware that I was making it move again—taking a fragment from one arrangement and placing it into another.

 

Water entered my thinking through that motion. It led me towards questions about the movement of goods and people, my own experience of migration, and much more difficult histories of forced movement across water that I had encountered through research. I do not see those experiences as equivalent. Their differences matter.

 

What stayed with me was a simpler question: what does movement do to our relationship with place, identity and memory?

 

On the canvas, a fragment could move and its relationship to everything around it would change. The material remained.

Treasure of Water sits for me in that tension between movement and continuity: what changes when we move, and what travels with us?

Material / Process

Coffee is used here as a staining material rather than simply as an image or reference. I work the coffee-dyed textile together with Adire through cutting, layering and bonding onto canvas. The process allows colour, stain, pattern and surface to build the work physically, while tea and coffee enter the work in different ways: one through remembered ritual, the other also as material.

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Print Edition

Limited-edition canvas print, unstretched, in a series of 20 copies.

Dimensions: 20(W) x 20(H) inches

Canvas

Price: £195

Unstretched canvas, shipped. securely in a tube.

Custom print sizes are available as well

The total edition consists of 20 printed pieces.