Kate Just is a queer, feminist artist best known for her inventive and political use of knitting. She subverts the craft’s historical associations as ‘women’s work’ to agitate for change and question existing formal hierarchies. In The arms of mother, which comprises arm-length scar-embroidered gloves she made for herself, Just explores knitting as a kind of ‘skin’. Harnessing knitting’s associations with nurturing, bondage and repair, the works materialise the artist’s past losses, while also symbolising resilience, renewal and hope for the future.