During her residency, Deborah Worthy-Collins will continue developing Our Lady… Pray for Us, a series of larger-than-life Marian-inspired sculptures. Rooted in materiality, especially textiles, the work explores identity formation within a settler colonial context through a series of “intercessionary” sculptures.  

Deborah’s practice is grounded in making as sensory and cognitive processing, intention-setting, petition and “prayer in action.” Through this, she considers tensions between complicity and victimhood, responsibility and surrender, connection and estrangement and creation and destruction across historical, social, ecological and personal contexts.