'When I learned basket making, I was trained in a whole range of different materials and skills such as cane work and rush work, as well as various techniques like coiling, knotting and netting. We used such a wide range of materials, but for me it was so extraordinary that there was this one material – willow – with which I could just stick a cutting in the ground and produce my own. I felt such a connection to it.
The actual process of basketmaking takes up quite a lot of space, but it always gets tidied back into this neat, rule-bound object, whereby everything is woven in a careful, systematic way. I'm always looking for opportunities to take stock of that process and how the material behaves. This is why our more recent works have been much more about celebrating what the material looks like when it's tied in a knot, or when its cut ends are revealed.