Teelah George’s practice employs paint, textile, bronze and found objects, responding to glitches and slippages in the documentation and recounting of history and memory. Drawing on historical records and visual art, she has an ongoing interest in material culture, as well as collections and archives as a point of departure in her practice. Teelah unpacks historical understandings of material relationships and the stories that they tell. Engaging with specific ideas, objects or works, she aims to subvert material and contextual hierarchies in an effort to create new potentialities.

Teelah George’s 'Sky piece' project maps the colour of the sky through large-scale embroideries and needlework, with varying gauges, directions and sheens of threads coalescing to create chromatic panels on linen offcuts. George recognises that the sky is both familiar and strange to us all.

Everyone is aware of and relates to the sky, yet it is impossible to touch or fully comprehend. George writes: ‘It is omnipresent yet eternally immaterial and vast. My constant and persistent attempt to represent it within the constraints of my material language and process is somewhat Sisyphean but comes to reflect a fundamentally human desire to represent, communicate and a will to keep’.