The main element of ArtYarn’s practice is fabricating installations of contemporary applied art. Their work engages a dialogue of structure and process and finds concerns in the formal qualities of knitting and crochet as a medium, using these techniques to bring a tactility and sensuality to sculptural creation.

ArtYarn employs experimentation with a wide range of fibres and found materials in their work, often involving an investigation of scale as a way to deconstruct notions of the domestic. In gallery based works, ArtYarn also incorporate video and photography into their installations, as communicative tools that compliment the hand crafted object. Active in varying practices of creating interactive and engaging art works, ArtYarn are interested in producing site specific pieces, evoking a sense of place and of people. In urban or built environments ArtYarn actively channel their surroundings directly in their work and in many cases, the bridging of nature and culture becomes a key thematic.

Public Participation is a further element to the practice of ArtYarn, in emphasising the human interactions that are historical to knitting and crochet practices. By organising interactive knitting interventions, ArtYarn offer open invitations to become co-creators of their works, initiating an accessibility to art and founding a relational aesthetic through participatory art making. As such, much of ArtYarn’s work becomes a living document to the interactions generated through shared interests in the processes of knitting and crochet.