Mixed Media, over the years
Included here are creations using multiple materials and sculptural forms...often a combination of tactile, sound, installation and participation. Most of my work uses multimedia in some form or another, whether that be through the use of pastels, paints and pencils in a painting, being immersed in a space, or sound and painting in response to it, wearing with scent, or listening whilst sitting or gardening! It is hard to not put all my works on to this page, so I have incorporated those that I feel sit under 'mixed media' the most.
'What is your voice?', an interactive multimedia piece, 2023
An interactive multimedia piece. A sound piece compiling different people's voices, their tones, their understanding of the question. Visitors to the piece were invited to listen and add to a wall to paint, draw, write, respond. The wall changed over time with others' voices, unspoken, instead, transformed into art, answering the question 'what is your voice?'. https://bit.ly/41OZl9m
Let Go and Grow, 2022
Bamboo outdoor hanging with handmade seed paper, inviting people to write down their worries and thoughts in that moment, and throw/dig into the earth. Eventually these worries we have in the moment, now in the past, will grow into wildflowers, a distant memory, transformed into something beautiful. Inspired by Buddhist philosophy and the conservation of our natural world. Exhibited as part of 'Articulture/Garden Party' amongst Creative and Therapeutic Artists in Treforest.
The Thinking Chair, 2021
Reclaimed car seat altered with anything found, depending on thoughts on the day, an ongoing project (wool, safety pins, acrylics, cushion stuffing, wire)
1000 Paper Cranes Healing Home, 2021
Origami paper, folded and made into 1000 cranes , inspired by Japanese symbolism and story of Sadako Sasaki, to heal my household during the Covid pandemic.
Dubba's Memory, 2020
Dyed fabric to replicate the colour of 1940s Lifebouy soap, using turmeric, saffron, inks, food colouring. Designed and sewed tea-dress, in mid-20th Century style. Washed dress in Lifebouy soap to heighten memories through sense of smell.
Recreating a youth's bedroom wall, records, 2019
Manipulated vinyl covers; acrylic and oil pastel painted and collaged portraiture based on film photography of friends, collaged film photography, paper collage. Arranged along two walls, mirroring that of a young person's bedroom wall with pinned up music icons. Inspired by youth subculture photographers.
