Looks good, feels great (2022)
During this project I developed ideas around print media & beauty culture in the 2000's- early 2010's. This resulted in a video work made using a film scanner and magazine clippings, and a large canvas work made using synthetic textile printing techniques. Below are the two final products and samples made during development of the canvas.
Screenprint and sublimation sample
Screenprint, dye transfer and sublimation sampling
Final sample
Final result, detail of 'Looks good, Feels great'
Play: House (2023)
A kitsch exploration of papercraft, this project was developed from theatre stage maquettes from the V&A collections. A mother and daughter figure parallel each other made from multiple layers of laser cut MDF. Looking at the relationship between domestic labour, mother and daughter and vulnerable spaces in the home.
No damsel then was worth a pin (2023)
Commissioned by GAS projects, I created a work in response to The Folk of Gloucester's heritage building. I created this work in response to the pin manufacturing history of the building, around the harsh labour conditions women and children endured to hand-make pins until mechanisation of the process ended the industry in Gloucester. Using surface pattern adapted from the building and a pincushion doll/rococo sack dresses as symbols of wealth in contrast to the working women's lives.
Pincushion doll detail
Installation shot
Design I
Design sketches
