I am particularly interested in how medical information in one context can be processed into words, numbers, graphs and charts, so it can be understood in another. Outsiders and the uninitiated see only random jumbles of letters and digits, lines and squares, but if you understand how to read the ‘Code of the Data’, you can see that information literally determining life or death diagnoses or treatment.

I have a socially engaged element to my practice. I often find myself working with people to help them tell the stories of themselves, their communities and their local history. This often takes the form of provoking conversations though and during making. I have worked with womens groups, patients in outpatient clinics or in isolation rooms, mental health service users and dementia clinics. I have run projects in schools and on out of hours programmes, with young people on remand or on teenage cancer wards. I have worked with the general public and specific targeted groups as part of public engagement strategies.

“Fortunately we have makers like Karina Thompson who exemplify the inquiring mind of the twenty-first century maker,
subtly integrating the new and old in a way that goes beyond the definition of craft”

Michael Eden

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