Day 3 #meetthemaker How you started: What kicked me into taking my art making on as my living, was a project I did at Uni which explored the deaths of animals and insects as a way of me exploring about how to cope with loss. I was struck by a fascination with mortality and the body as a material and this has kind of stuck! Part of the project was building a book which through a series of sculptural stitching, would turn the pages, to suggest the book of death was alive itself. This book I planned on making a few, so I wanted to learn about how to etch so I could experiment with a drawing as well as have a series of books. Discovering how to replicate a drawing made it easier to give my work away as I could still have a copy myself, yet each one would still hold a special something individually. Then I started running a market in Stokes Croft, Bristol , called Market at the Moon, and over the nearly 3 years I ran it, I was gaining more and more confidence and knowledge about selling my prints and sculptures on my own stall! Now I still do market stalls and sell my work in local galleries and shops and hope to find more new outlets this year. Photo one: 1m x 1m suspended copper with bread, ham and cheese #marchmeetthemaker #bristolart #bristolartist #etching #artistbook #stitchart #stitch #somersetpaper #insectart #mortality #morte #momentomores #momentomori #death #dead #loss #mourningart #printmaking #bristolprintmaking #bristolprint #bristoletching #etching #bristolprintmaker #bristolartspace
