Hat making.

I have had this idea since I bought a pound plastic animal (parrot) from Fenwicks in newcastle.

Stolen from 1930's - 1940's hats with a modern twist.

Also I realy realy want a pet

wot i did yesteday

The pillowcase is finished!

I chose a pillowcase because its an old one I have slept on since I was at college dreaming of getting into artschool back in 2006.

It has all the stains of red hairdye and carrys alot of history.

Now im somewhere I am happy and want to pass the pillowcase over to new meaning and ideas.

I wanted to commemorate the fact the course is getting shut down, and an obvious thing to do (especily with the 11th/11th coming up) with war memorials and death lists was to write the names of all the first and second years.

The last of what I feel is a dying breed.

The names are overlapped making it difficult to read, the first years overlapping the second.

All the colours look like its already fading.

It looks like it has been changed by many generations, like the exhobition at the childhood meuseum (V+A).

I personlanly think it works realy well and enjoyed making it.

started a tiny wee 40p canvas

primed mi canvas

aye it is ment to be yellow

Dress is finished!

I have embroidered on this dress because It was given to us (Bem, Charlie, Emma and myself) by some charitiy workers just outside archway station.

Charitie workers were doing a task of exchange, we gave them some sketches in exchange for the dress, they had been given the dress from a lady whom had exchanged it for some buttons. I like the fact the dress has its own throwaway feeling, and trying to change it from something with no known history to something precious and with meaning.

This was one of the first times we all sort f left the stuidio at the same time and were all getting to know one another. The dress was given at a cross point in time so I wanted to do something special and personal with it.

I was going to embroyder things we loved about London on it, but no one else seemed keen to add anything to it so I started with a knife and fork as the class only seemed at the time to gather and talk at lunchtimes (and I LOVE food).

Hand stitching seemed more personal and appropriate.

Red and blue becuse it is the colours of the univerity of the arts london (CSM). http://www.suarts.org/shop/index.php?page=product_details&product_id=790

And the map of the northen line as it is the bloodline to my new london life.

I have also used a coathanger from our still life project, renforcing my whole junk:treasure idea.

This piece seems too brutal at the moment.

This is why I moved onto the pillowcase idea.

paintin'

V+A museum of childhood

Was a nostalgia trip and a half.

Second hand toys galore.

You should absouloutly go if you have the chance.

Make do and mend:

Lourota.com - plates

quilt by Sylvia Pidgem

rest by primary schools all round London! (jealous much of there talents!) decoupage in the stylin of Victorian children.

1930's child dressing outfit- what will I be when I grow up?

Strange idea.

Cat chair-

Gerad Rigot often made these wonderful wooden animal chairs

1987

Loved these tinned toys (1960-70's Chinese made) wonderful colours and quirkiness. Might explore this further

Fabric bears

dress - ze bottom

The dress is coming along ok.

Ran out of blue and red thread so have started the bottom half.

These do not photograph so well.

darkroom work