Name: Sara Hindhaugh

Title: How Are You

Medium: Embroidery, gilded hair on cotton handkerchief

Year: 2024

Price: £420
 

Description:

Sara Hindhaugh’s work explores fractured narratives drawn from personal experience, engaging with themes of time, mortality, grief and salvation. Using fragile and symbolic materials, her practice often transforms delicacy into strength through time-intensive processes.

In this pair of embroidered works, gilded human hair — both delicate and enduring — is used to stitch familiar phrases such as “How are you?” and “I am still alive” onto white handkerchiefs. These objects, traditionally associated with sorrow and surrender, become quiet reflections on emotional truth, concealment and survival.