Amber Art

Lida tattoo design 

Geometric carnal wolf mask inspired by Tord Boontje. Constructed from paper, card, hot glue and a second hand lamp stand. Lit up with LED bulbs placed strategically. 

Pyramid head inspired by Masahiro Ito’s design, wearable art both constructed and photographed by me. Model credit to Amy Rowsell. 

Topic: Circus Subverting gender norms by using a male model for the skirt and bondage wool bralet. Bondaweb vintage Ringling Bros posters and sewn skirt.

Topic: Circus  Subverting gender norms by making a deep sea freakshow bralet, worn by a man. Weaving, heat-pressed angelina fibres and machine knit ladders. 

Female armour prototyping

Female armour inspired by feminism for my textiles project “body structure” in which I am researching armour, bras, femininity and war.

One of my portraits of Frida Kahlo, scanned and edited for the laser cutter, etched into ply and then earring attachments later added.

My handmade creations lovingly prepared for the Christmas shop exhibition at De Koffie Pot, West Bank, Hereford, 16th and 17th December 2015.  Five machine knitted bags, four machine knitted scarves, four heat press prints sewn with calico to create zip-up bags, and four prints sewn onto handmade calico tote bags. 

Heat prints hung as prayer flags

Life drawing

Taxidermy in Bristol museum 

My resin samples

Resin encapsulating copper leaf and dye used to simulate meteors and planets

Photography inspired by the visual language vocab list. My chosen topic matter: Hereford Cathedral. Words in order of use: Figurative, unity, asymmetric, transparent, symmetrical, negative space, contrast, rigidity, focal point, suspended.

Print making rotation: styrofoam print tests. Doodles of foxes, pattern and repetition.

Originally one shoulder piece, edited to create a set, giving the impression of armour.