Introduction

Manya Goldman's work deals with family and relationships. She explores the territory of memory and questions issues concerning belonging and loss. In choosing to work in hand embroidery she welcomes the slow unfolding of meaning. She uses fine silk and cotton thread which she combines as if mixing paint and with this palette she works to reconstruct, or reimagine, the sense of a moment.

Her works deal with capturing the immaterial; ghosts fleeting through the mind, caught in a web of stitching. Family photographs are her starting point for exploration and recreation. The works behave as emotional sutures: to repair lost people and places; to bring them back to life.

Manya wants to take the viewer into their own memories and, through her personal history of displacement, produce a resonance with theirs. Especially so, having chosen such a medium which pierces the surface and registers the hand that made it.

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