Yarnbomb by Sundogs

by Inverness Old Town Art, 28 Aug 2009

Yarnbomb by Sundogs.

Sundogs are Jennifer Cantwell + Annie Marrs

Yarnbombing is an act of guerilla knitting. It is part of an international movement against consumerism and mass production. It promotes regeneration, recycling, low impact local production and involves networks of independent artists, designer/makers and crafters who use traditional handskills to produce public, non-commercial, knitted graffiti which fuses art, craft and design to make a political statement.

Sundogs have embraced that ethos and given it our own slant which is a reclamation of public space, we are using the concept of wrapping public space in knitting as a way of giving that space a personal identity that has a relationship with the townspeople on an individual level, that in its turn gives ownership of that space to the person seeing it, as it imbues it with ideas, feelings and personal memories which are evoked by the material.

We are using red as it is the colour of life, love + emphasis. We are creating an arterial life-line that runs the full length of one street, running off down narrow alleys + circling in open spaces, creating a connection between people, places and experiences, past present and future.