The Dream Blanket

2022-ongoing

The Dream Blanket- in progress, 2024

Between 2003-2007, Hall was working with ideas of female embodiment and its deep personal and political manifestations. In that context, she created a collaborative series of book works that explored female beauty and sexuality. For some of the photographic works she made, she collected vintage “ballgowns” for her models to wear. These gowns and some vintage satin loungewear and pyjamas belonging to her aunties, are the materials she is “using up” in the Dream Blanket. Still a long way from being “finished”, the image above is about half the size of the finished blanket as currently visualized, and is intended to have two sides so it can be suspended away from a wall, when and if it is finally exhibited.

 

 

 

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The Memory Blankets

2020-ongoing. During the pandemic, Pam began to take things apart... fish, aprons, clothing. It was a soothing practice of "unmaking" which inevitably led to putting things back together again. The un-made fish became a Fish Blanket, the unmade aprons became Work Blankets...she has a lot of unmaking ahead, so imagines many blankets will emerge.


© 2025 Pam Hall. Designed by Matthew Hollett.