The Handmade Type

Handmade set of stamps, cut from erasers with a scapel. This set was a bespoke design, but I have also created stamps from classic typefaces.

What Is It?

This work is based on a brief named "What Is It?", which required exstensive research into an object that we found interesting from one of the museums in London. My chosen piece was named "Cradle to Grave" which is a representation of the average amount of perscription pills a man and a woman are said to take in their life (pictured below), made by a group of artists and scientists who go by the name of Pharmacopoeia.

'The fountain of youth' became a focus for this project, which lead to experimenting with water. Freezing items in water became a visual metaphor for the human desire to preserve ones self, which reflects my intial starting point.

The jelly dentures (above) became one of my final piece's as dentures are typically associated with elderly people, but by making them from jelly, they hint at an essence of longing for childhood and nostalgia.

Sketches drawn from Martin Parr photographs.

Collection of all my photographs, sketches and prints, printed out to postcard size and presented in a handmade box, which has been covered in wood effect vinyl. Once again inspired by Martin Parr.