Everything on your feed is built to be consumed and discarded. Spike Dennis interrupts that. Working across needlepoint, cross stitch, and drawing, the practice extracts digital ephemera; internet cats, memes, catfish messages, social media profiles of the deceased, and forces them through a labour-intensive material process that refuses the logic of disposability. The counted grid of the embroidery mirrors the pixel grid of the screen, creating objects that exist on a continuum between the digital and the handmade. Across every series, the same question recurs: what happens to throwaway culture when someone refuses to throw it away?
artist bio
Spike Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist whose work blends embroidery, collage, video, and digital culture. Originally from Wales, he studied Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art before completing a Master of Fine Arts. Now based back in Wales, his practice navigates the absurdities of 21st-century life, fusing handcraft and internet ephemera into strange, thoughtful works.
His work has been exhibited nationally at Oriel Davies, MK Gallery, and Ruthin Craft Centre, and internationally in cities including Los Angeles and Kaunas.