OXYGEN

Our first client based project! Myself and Kirsty Tizzard were lucky to have been contacted by a boutique owner to redesign their shop window. Naturally we jumped at the chance. The boutique, called Oxygen, is situated just off Oxford Street, and was having trouble getting customers in the shop as it sits alongside lots of wholesalers, so was being mistaken for being one also. This is almost understandable from looking at the uninspiring shop window (above).

After some thinking about what we could do to enhance the window, we decided on the idea of using birds to display the clothes. The shop owner had specified that she didn't want to use manikins in the window, so we wanted to hang the clothes somehow. We then began sketching and came up with the above design, which we settled on.

Once it was approved by the shop owner, we began making!

And it was finished!! The owner was really pleased and has even asked us to come back and help adapt it for Autumn/Winter. Success!

With Love ♥

A card I made the other day for my Godmother. Just to prove I am still being creative, even in the Summer heat.

GLORIOUS GUERNSEY

Luckily for me my boyfriend's parents live in Guernsey, so we get to visit in the holidays. We went on a boat trip around the little caves and islands, so I managed to get a few nice photos in the Summer sun.

Nicey Nicey Zoo Zoo

We went to the zoo a little while ago with uni. It was the first outing for my Christmas camera from my dad, a Cosina CT1G with a big old zoom lens. Rather pleased with the results if I do say so myself.

Dressing Table

Just a set of illustrations I did for my housemate Ashleigh McMorran, who is in her final year at LCF, studying Fashion Journalism. These were used in a piece she wrote about the rivival of the dressing table, and were inspired by a Dior photoshoot.

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.