Clementine Barnes' work is motivated by her personal experience to textiles. She uses cotton thread, woollen yarn, needle point and weaving to explore themes of gender, space and craft vs. art.

As part of her residency at the ATW Clementine created a series of weavings that were stitched together to form a final collage. The individual weavings were influenced by her research into 17th-19th century lace and embroidery samplers and subsequent suite of screen prints she was working on.

The work was a homage to the women who produced the original exquisite samplers.