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Chrissie Freeth woven tapestry Delia Jo
Delia Jo
2016

Cotton warp, hand-dyed woollen weft

1.29 m x 1.62 m​

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My great-great-great grandmother’s suicide in 1862 left a dreadful legacy for several generations of women in my family. Two of her three daughters, and her only grand-daughter, were incarcerated in lunatic asylums. The latter, Delia Jo, was a resident in a workhouse until 1923 when she wiped her nose on her sleeve and became ‘uncooperative’. She was put in the same asylum as her mother and died there forty years later in 1963 having never left. Delia Jo, finished in 2016 was an attempt to use the techniques developed for No Longer Mourn on a larger scale.

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