Transition-Missing

Transition-Birthday cake

Using cake decoration to display a Nabokov quote, "The more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is." to demonstrate the role birthday cakes have played in the recollection of my past.

Transition-Fairy Castle Cake

As part of my 'Transition' project, I began analysing the transitional stages of myself. Birthday photos were significant in the documentation of this. Exploring the influence of photographs on the creation of memories, led me to discover a vivid memory of mine was infact false. I decided to rectify this by re-creating the memory and documenting with photography.

Transition-Mum & Me

Trawling through old family photos, I was struck by the similarities between my mum's photos from 30 years ago, and my photos from the past couple of years.

Puffin Book Cover-Final

Daisy, Daisy...

Kirsty and I were delighted to hear from Joanna again last week, as she wanted us to brighten up her window display a bit, in the anticipation for some sunshine, and eventually, Summer! We were really inspired by the idea of framing the mannequin to draw attention to the garments, (below, left) and also introducing some colour on the mannequins themselves, with a fake grass or astroturf, (below, right).

However, we did come across a few problems with astroturf mannequins, so we decided to just stick with keeping it on the floor! Our final design looked a little like this...

 

We still wanted to create some kind of frame around the window to really highlight the clothes, and so passers-by could peek through. We decided to use chalk pens to draw hundreds of daisies all over the window, which we knew would be time consuming, but well worth it!

And we couldn't have been more pleased with the result! And neither could Joanna for that matter! The window lights up beautifully in the sunshine, and brightens up the day even when it's dull and rainy. We got several smiles from passers-by as we were drawing all the flowers, so hopefully we have brought a little to cheer to Eastcastle Street!

And we added some cheeky daisy chains inside the shop too!

Puffin Book Cover-Quilling

 

After experimenting with paper manipulation I was really inspired by Yulia Brodskaya http://www.artyulia.com/  an artist who uses the traditional craft technique of 'quilling' in such an incredible way, I had to give it a go myself.

Puffin Book Cover

Initial experimentation for the Puffin Design Awards cover competition for James and the Giant Peach, using paper cut-outs and lighting to create unusual shadows.

TRACES-Final

Lasercut set of stamps to represent 8 different skin ailments. The beauty of the skin is highlighted, but also becomes personal, as it is transferred to the audiences' skin.

TRACES-Stitched Ham

A development of my previous stitched scabs led me to experiment with other materials, such as ham. The combination of fabric and meat creates a rather uncomfortable and unnatural image, which adds to the ugliness of the subject.

Sshhhh!

Along side our Personal Best exhibition, we also held a Silent Auction on the night of the private view. This was a combination of donations from professional designers and illustrators, LCC tutors and work from our class. For my donation I decided to keep things simple with a cross-stitched letter "A" in a nice circus style typeface.

This went for £10 which I was pretty pleased with. Overall we managed to raise about £900 that evening, which was brilliant! A definate success and so much fun. Especially the after party at the local pub!