This Is 'Not A Cardie'

Soft Machine Mixed Media Installation

Not a Cardy is a short one-minute animation that Cathy Dunbar and I knitted into an installation. It's looped videos of knitting hands on old computer monitors. I recorded The Cambridge Six Bells Knitting Group doing what they do. At this point the project includes media players, PC monitors, inflatables, and a growing pile of knitted things: jumpers, scarves, cardigans, baby booties, pom poms. We've also knitted around a sofa, a lampshade, and some lighting

First developed in Cambridge, UK, Not a Cardy has been exhibited across festivals and gallery spaces, adapting to each site as an expanding ecosystem of soft materials and screen‑based media. The soundscape, drawn from the 1951 satirical sci-fi film The Man in the White Suit, adds a playful yet uncanny layer, linking the handmade to the industrial, the domestic to the futuristic.