2008
Sound Snow Sleighs
10/12/08 21:15 Filed in: Sewing
I have been working for the Southbank Centre over the last week to help create a pair of Sound Snow Sleighs. I did most of the upholstering by hand, and now my fingers are really sore ( next time i will take my sewing machine with me!) But now its done it looks lovely, gleaming and snowlike!
Teaching knit and crochet!!
16/11/08 21:04 Filed in: Classes
OK, don’t laugh - I didn’t design the flyer OR come up with the name,
but i will be running two of these groups for the next six weeks!!
If you want to join in please contact to book a place.
but i will be running two of these groups for the next six weeks!!
If you want to join in please contact to book a place.
Amigurumi
08/11/08 18:37 Filed in: Crochet
I’m completely hooked.
I could spend all day on the net looking at pictures of japanese amigurumi crochet.
Kawaii!
This is one of mine:
Ari The One Armed Ami.
If you want to make some crochet characters, check out this book by Annie, a lovely girl who also works at Tatty Devine.
I could spend all day on the net looking at pictures of japanese amigurumi crochet.
Kawaii!
This is one of mine:
Ari The One Armed Ami.
If you want to make some crochet characters, check out this book by Annie, a lovely girl who also works at Tatty Devine.
10 minute costume
02/11/08 14:26
After spending all day traveling up the country wating for delayed and cancelled trains trying to get back home, I had about half an hour to dump my bags, rest, make a cuppa, and get ready for the ATP’s Release the Bats, with Lightning Bolt playing first at 6.30 - we couldn’t be late. But I couldn’t go to a Halloween party without a costume so this was my super fast cardboard cut out and tin foil attempt. Of course it got completely crushed as I made it to the front of the mosh for Lightning Bolt!
MF Doom for Jamie
19/10/08 16:24 Filed in: Sewing
I can now reveal the minature sewing i have been doing! Me and Matt have been transforming a Doctor Doom action figure, blinging him up into MF Doom for our flatmate Jamie’s birthday present! Check out the Doom nike high tops I made!
Warped tree
15/10/08 15:47 Filed in: Textile Graffitti
I went for a walk through Clissold Park the other week and look what I found!
Two trees that had been warped up together with red yarn.
This look so beautiful, I would love to know who did it.
Its still there now, a week later.
My friend spotted another tree wrapped and warped in the same way, in London Fields too.
Two trees that had been warped up together with red yarn.
This look so beautiful, I would love to know who did it.
Its still there now, a week later.
My friend spotted another tree wrapped and warped in the same way, in London Fields too.
new textile installation
27/09/08 17:15 Filed in: Textile Graffitti
I have begun to string up a new textile site specific installation, this is it so far...
Vote for my designs on threadless.com!!
18/09/08 23:27 Filed in: Drawing
I have submitted two designs for threadless.com, once up there will be 7 days for you lovely people to vote for them! (you don’t need to choose between them just gimme 5 for both!!) I think these would make great t-shirts, don’t you!
Click on the links below, sign up / login in and get voting!!!
Click on the links below, sign up / login in and get voting!!!
Haircut
11/08/08 23:02 Filed in: Drawing
I've been putting this off for months, going to the hairdressers is like torture for me, but if I'm looking for work maybe its best not to cut it myself this time.
hairdressers looking pretty but bored.
There was a young girl, maybe 5 or 6, waiting to get her hair done. She looked really sad.
hairdressers doing their fancy flicks and moves.
me in despair.
hairdressers looking pretty but bored.
There was a young girl, maybe 5 or 6, waiting to get her hair done. She looked really sad.
hairdressers doing their fancy flicks and moves.
me in despair.
hello hello erm... hello!
09/08/08 22:28 Filed in: Drawing
This is my new website, I hope you like it.
all my masked men say hello!!!
all my masked men say hello!!!
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
02/07/08 21:40 Filed in: Crochet
Hyperbolic Crochet
I have become hooked into crochet. As a Textile Artist this activity is something I already had in practice, picking up the stitches and following on from my grandma’s legacy, this has gone beyond what is commonly perceived as a feminine handicraft, a hobby of the past or of a quirky, kitche activity to do in the pub with your indie mates. Crochet, knit and other textile techniques are not just a physical activity. Here lies a cognitive exercise, in which thought process develops through the process of making. Crochet has gone into the realm of physics and mathematics, as being a perfect method to create models to express and explain the hyperbolic plane.
A hyperbolic plane?… I have become stuck for trying to describe it, yet through making I can show you an example of this one surface that is ever expanding and multiplying in its negative curvature. If mathematics is a language, then in its visual form shows structure and pattern. Using crochet, increasing the number of stitches from the starting point, demonstrates these geometric forms. I have found a connection here, a thread that runs through all my textile work, uncovering a sense of order out of apparent chaos.
The hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef is an international collaboration conceived by The Institute For Figuring bringing together the work of countless people, creating their own crochet models as single elements, brought together as a whole, show a mass of microcosms and macrocosms. The “coral reef” has been exampled for this project to push forward an ecological issue, but when looking at these forms could equally be describing other biological structures.
From its international exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, people from the Uk were invited to respond and make their own crochet corals. This response has been so fantastic, that I have become involved in this branching off, to create the UK Reef. In partnership with Denise Quinn, and with support from the Crafts Council I have helped curate and install the crochet display for tour in the Knitting and Stitching Show, during which I taught more people how to crochet. The project grows and spreads as more people get hooked. The future for the growing UK Reef? As more off shoots develop, this craft is becoming viral, watch this space...
I have become hooked into crochet. As a Textile Artist this activity is something I already had in practice, picking up the stitches and following on from my grandma’s legacy, this has gone beyond what is commonly perceived as a feminine handicraft, a hobby of the past or of a quirky, kitche activity to do in the pub with your indie mates. Crochet, knit and other textile techniques are not just a physical activity. Here lies a cognitive exercise, in which thought process develops through the process of making. Crochet has gone into the realm of physics and mathematics, as being a perfect method to create models to express and explain the hyperbolic plane.
A hyperbolic plane?… I have become stuck for trying to describe it, yet through making I can show you an example of this one surface that is ever expanding and multiplying in its negative curvature. If mathematics is a language, then in its visual form shows structure and pattern. Using crochet, increasing the number of stitches from the starting point, demonstrates these geometric forms. I have found a connection here, a thread that runs through all my textile work, uncovering a sense of order out of apparent chaos.
The hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef is an international collaboration conceived by The Institute For Figuring bringing together the work of countless people, creating their own crochet models as single elements, brought together as a whole, show a mass of microcosms and macrocosms. The “coral reef” has been exampled for this project to push forward an ecological issue, but when looking at these forms could equally be describing other biological structures.
From its international exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, people from the Uk were invited to respond and make their own crochet corals. This response has been so fantastic, that I have become involved in this branching off, to create the UK Reef. In partnership with Denise Quinn, and with support from the Crafts Council I have helped curate and install the crochet display for tour in the Knitting and Stitching Show, during which I taught more people how to crochet. The project grows and spreads as more people get hooked. The future for the growing UK Reef? As more off shoots develop, this craft is becoming viral, watch this space...
Move Me in 3D!!
18/04/08 21:06 Filed in: Drawing
I was just heading into town on the tube today and discovered my poster is still up! Now try this!! Get yourself a pair of Tatty Devine 3D glasses- like the ones I'm modeling here, and look at my drawing, this was totally by accident but really works! Get your own from www.tattydevine.com
Bones Magazine
17/03/08 23:03 Filed in: Photography
Recently, I’ve been having lots of fun playing with my new Holga camera, which lead to Bones Magazine asking me to contribute some photography for their Hardcore issue.
Move Me
23/02/08 22:14 Filed in: Drawing | Exhibitions
Basically what you need to know here is that i won a competition to have my artwork made as a poster to be displayed on the London Underground!! From 25th Feb - 10th March, go to the end of the south bound platform on the Victoria line at Highbury & Islington Station, and you will see my work! The drawing above was previewed at Rainbird Fine Art, as part of the exhibition organized by Islington Council. However Transport For London rejected this piece at being “a negative view of of their transport system” so they asked me for other work, i sent 3 images for them to choose from and all were put up - yeay for me!
Permanent Vacation Presents...
16/02/08 23:51 Filed in: Drawing
come down to the port mahon in Oxford, see Euhedral (Lee Reily) make noise, and check out my poster!
Oxford Open
10/01/08 22:07 Filed in: Drawing | Exhibitions
Between the 12th Jan - 17th Feb 2008, Modern Art Oxford is opening its institutional doors free to the creative peoples of Oxford. After queing for 2 hours to submit my work, I can now join Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin and Yoko Ono amongst others, to have exhibited in this fantastic space. See Below...
Shift. 2004. Pen, pencil & mascara on paper.
These drawings were executed whilst i was a gallery assistant at Modern Art Oxford. A shift from the duty of work, and the study of gallery visitors, reveals my underlying emotion at that time.