My original idea for the invisible woman was to investigate the internal and external reality of the invisibility of 'women of a certain age'.

The pressures on women in their 50's to appear younger and to deny their real age is enormous.  In the media we rarely see what a normal, natural woman looks like; we are bombarded with the likes of "10 Years Younger" and celebrities pretending that their expressionless faces are down to genetics, lots of water and whatever moisturizers they are flogging to an ever increasing gullible audience, usually of the baby boomer variety.  

However my MA Sequential Design project, which was to be the voice of the invisible woman, became the sounding board for a narrative concerning my own personal history of always feeling invisible, recreated by sewn pictures (stitchures) which became a film and a book and were exhibited at Brighton University.  I am now doing another MA at Sussex University, on gender and media.  My dissertation will return to the invisibility of older women and the pressures to resort to botox and the cosmetic surgeon's knife. 

Come back again to see further stitchures and work about those of us who dare to show that we have smiled, cried and frowned occasionally.