Filomena the Woolly Brain with Tiny Brain , Gaelle Chassery, 2024 I am delighted to be part of the Please Touch! Exhibition organised by Fife Contemporary as part of the StAnza Festival 25. Five of my woolly sculptures will be displayed at the Byre Theatre, available to be interacted with from 14-30th March 2025. We will kick off the opening of the exhibition with an online talk on March 13th at 11am, where I will be discussing my work and the reasons why my woolly sculptures only feel complete once visitors can touch them and interact with them in person. The talk is free but booking essential. All details here Find all details about the exhibition here Nesting: Regulation Station , Gaelle Chassery, 2024

As our Dream Map Project* unfolds, I will be featuring artists taking part in this collaborative piece of art. Today, we hear from Homani Ahava and her embroidery "Stitching A Dream" along with the powerful poem she wrote to accompany it, and a lovely interview. Photo credit: Adi Ziv Av. STITCHING A DREAM  by Homani Ahava  (December 2024 / Month of Kislev 5785) During my stay in the land of the butterflies, they showed me their way of life.  Food neither comes from the blossoms of flowers, nor trees.  Their nectar of life, sweet, golden, bliss, runs through a network of hearts.  All butterfly beings are interconnected  through tubes in their middle -  an intricate, dynamic, flexible grid in whose center beats the heart of their world. There is an endless exchange of honey. They intentionally contract their hearts, pumping liquid warmth into communal tissue - while receiving nourishment  in return through their chords.  Sucking in juice by for...