“Craft Kills” is a self-portrait of Freddie Robins as St. Sebastian, with knitting needles piercing her woolly skin – a play on the idea of suffering for arts sake, and a comment on the view that craft is a benign activity.

Image inIVA, complete view of the work on the website of the upcoming exhibition Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting, Museum of Art & Design, NYc.

Also by Freddie Robins: knitted replicas of houses associated with high profile crimes committed by women; human heart cushion, mutant wool jumpers, sweaters for people with disabilities, etc.
More knitting: Delirious knitting show at Craft Council, Hand-knitted extravaganza, Mark Newport’s knitted Super Heroics.