ScrapSwap is an ongoing art-archaeology collaboration between textile artist Gillian Cooper and myself.

It is a means of thinking about the material generated by creative practice.
This includes paying attention to the ethical and ecological implications of making, while also taking a celebratory approach to our materials.

Our focus has been particularly on the by-products of making, the off-cuts, the cast-offs, the debitage, the rejected pieces, the debris that builds up around creative practice.

The stuff that, for whatever reason, we keep. Or, in the case of this project, the scraps that we swap.