Hi there, I'm Marn. I make beakies and in the making I learn to be a person.

Beakies are energy beings made from clothes worn to threads.

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Koala Avril

Tiniest frays, trims, ribbons, seams of jeans, shirts and curtains, They say it’s a mess, She says it’s for the best, She climbs the tallest branch, spread her frilly arms and whoosh she plunges into the clouds.

Cat Lord Tangleton

The thick and coarse upholstery fabric fibres wrap up bits and and pieces of throwaways. Tangled fibres matted conceals the path he took to get here.

Bat Eduardo

Co-creating with serendipity. She traded full creative control for tenderness. The result is a silly bat she didn’t know she’d dearly love. *** A knot atop a knot sat there while I made this and that. Winter was here then spring came, to him I tied three different scraps. He grew tall and patient. One […]
Shihtzudog with ball artist textile soft doll

Moulding with Memories

An unfinished Maltese, a dying laptop and a dream of crepes stirred up a flurry of memories that became a mould for casting a new soft doll. *** Strands of white crepe cotton wound around different colours of the rainbow and more, some not quite long enough and are left dangling. Dangling like his ears, […]