Re-engaging a historical craft, chain making is foundational to the artist’s practice. Kibby hand makes and hand weaves her clay loops together, before firing the chains in the kiln. Following this labour-intensive process, the chain mail materials are shaped into free-standing sculptures. Slouching and clenching in on themselves, like bodies keeling, they mark a vital re-interpretation of traditional craft practice. Very often, the artist chooses to work in a monotone palette, doing so to accentuate the finer details and stature of her sculptures. In the artist’s Double Skin series, the chains or 'permeable barriers’ as Kibby has described, are hung against a flat surface. Draping like cloth or folding skin, these works highlight the contrasts embedded in Kibby’s forms, between soft and hard, permeable or closed. Textile or clay.