My practice largely focuses around three themes of: Wellbeing. Collaboration. The Everyday.
Collage is my main medium of creating: using graphic shapes and bright colour schemes to generate bold compositions. Alongside this I enjoy printmaking: screenprinting and cyanotype and have loved exploring these different processes in my projects this year.
Collaboration: interaction and communication is vital to my practice and often plays an important role in my research.
I collaborated with a textile student, Alice Hartland-Ord on a print project to create a large A1 screenprint. Having both stayed in Edinburgh during the initial lockdown in March, we wanted to celebrate our baking creations, a vital part of our wellbeing during that time. We both gained knowledge and skills of the process as well as developing a greater understanding and appreciation of what it means to work in collaboration.
A fold-out safety booklet and poster on Cold Water Swimming. I incorporated my own experimentation with cyanotype and monoprinting to reflect the icy tones of the water.
‘Plunge’ conveys the narrative of a swimmer diving into the sea. The physical journey also reflects the mental journey, as the book leads the viewer from feelings of initial shock to an energised mind. The large A4 hand-bound format of the book is inspired by joint reading, the idea of reading as a shared experience. Have a look at my website to read the book in full.
I collaborated with Graphic Designer Jeremy Newman, creating illustrations for an elderflower cordial brand manifesto. The illustrations help visualise the brand’s identity.
Illustrations for “Wretched Light Industry”: I created a series of illustrations for a game being showed and played in an online exhibition “Wretched Light Industry”. I worked with scriptwriter Toby Mills to create illustrations for the ‘loading pages’ between each section of the game: giving background information for the player.
Roadwork Dreams focuses on my surrounding environment, the roadworks on Leith Walk outside my flat. Although in theory this will be an important asset for Leith, the noise and destruction has been all encompassing. One of my flatmates had the noise infiltrate her dreams, another describing the road scene to look like a river parting the street in two. I initially documented the scene through photography and sketching. The illustrations created from this project explore the visual chaotic imagery of the scene. I used collage and layering to investigate this.
‘Talking Turkeys’ by Benjamin Zephaniah, focuses on the environment and animal rights among other topics. My book cover reflects the playful, straightforward nature of the language and humour.
I looked at “Good Combinations”, using Instagram to ask friends of their own personal favourite combinations. The set of illustrations reflect the varied responses: some more serious, others playful or strange.
A packaging project for an Edinburgh Festival, Innis and Gunn beer. My target audience was the older generation in Edinburgh, developing my idea to focus on the Floral Clock by The Scott Monument. The floral clock is used to commemorate events and works well for a limited-edition beer celebrating the festival. The beer is infused with dandelion; a traditional flavour chosen to fit with the floral theme.
