Bonnie Ogilvie’s practice grows from her closely intertwined Scottish–Dutch heritage. Her recent work often takes the form of textile portraits, incorporating personal and found archival materials such as family photographs, documents and prints. Bringing a few objects that belonged to her father to keep him close, she began observing and researching these memorabilia within the Scottish landscape. 

Ogilvie layers fabric, patches, stitches, and broken plates, creating compositions from personal objects that hold memory and reveal a sense of time and place. Just as stains remain on plates shared with friends and family, traces of the past persist, which brings the presence of someone from the past into the present.