This work combines natural materials and traditional textile practices with novel out-of-context applications. Pulling on areas of interest, rooted in printed textiles with traditional yet innovative materials, where slow hand skills and meditative repetition of movements are combined to produce usable textile pieces. Calder is interested in the positive effects that colour and texture can have on our everyday lives. 'Long Division' is influenced by a research residency trip to Japan in 2023, during which she studied katazome, shibori, and indigo dyeing. 'Noren', a traditional door curtain, is depicted here as a gateway between worlds. Exploring the techniques and feelings learned in faraway places and adapting them to the constraints of Scottish studio practice, where compromises and substitutions are made for materials and equipment not easily available in Glasgow. The work aims to evoke emotion through the gateway between worlds.

These textile pieces contributed to a group show named 'COALESCE', which was shown in The Reid Gallery at Glasgow School of Art.
Coalesce was a celebratory exhibition bringing together the creative work of technicians and associated staff at The Glasgow School of Art. Pieces displaying responses across disciplines, including sculpture, photography, textiles, painting, printmaking, and digital media.

The majority of technicians, studio and workshop assistants in the exhibition were from the GSA Technical Support Department. This department supports learning and teaching across the four schools of GSA – Innovation & Technology, Fine Art, Design & Architecture. This highly skilled group of staff are practising artists and designers as well as technicians.