Statement

Dominique Bailey-Boahene works across sculpture, textiles and performance, reworking discarded materials through processes of reuse and transformation. Her practice is informed by knowledge passed through generations of women in her Jamaican family, drawing on traditions of repair and resourcefulness embedded in everyday life.

Working through felting, weaving and construction, she develops sculptural forms through testing rather than predetermined outcomes. Material directs making, with meaning emerging through repetition, handling and change. Performance extends this enquiry through improvised singing, responsive to environment, atmosphere and material conditions.

Collective making and workshop environments are central to her practice. Through shared processes of demonstration, exchange and repetition, she explores how knowledge is transmitted through embodied experience and material engagement, positioning sculpture as a social and physical practice grounded in presence and process.

Her work addresses how personal and collective histories are held in material, where repair and reuse are shaped by time, attention and duration. Through making and remaking, sculpture is understood as continually in formation - existing as both object and site of exchange.