Texiles and needlework have always been part of Alke's art practice, often in combination with other media. In the works in this gallery, embroidery takes centre stage. 

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The  HEALING project was initially inspired by learning  about neuroplasticity and how embroidery not only feels therapeutic, but can physically change the brain. Then it turned into a meditation about our entanglement with plants and soil within the eternal cycle of life on earth. Plants feed us, they can heal our bodies and nourish our souls; some  can kill us. And when we die our bodies become nutrients for plants, via an untold number of micro- and not so micro organisms. 

With this circularity in mind, each piece in this project is reversible  - there is no ‘right’ side up. More detail images of the Healing works can be found in the News section.

Other text-based works respond, in the tradition of craftivism, to issues of the day.

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