craft lab 2025
hero series
the full story
In this world, there is a girl who lives freely, passionately and happily. But she didn’t always live such a life.
Not long ago, she was trapped in shame, doubt and hatred. She was taught from a young age that her body was a temple and that if she wasn’t careful, it would bring evil thoughts to man. Such thoughts would desecrate her holy body, consuming the light in her soul and sending the shredded remains downwards to a place of everlasting darkness and misery. Fear and shame tainted her, turning her into a thing of hideous hatred.
She didn’t understand herself, the thoughts and feelings she had seemed contrary to what she had been taught. Deep down, she loved her body and wanted to celebrate it. She wanted to dance naked under the stars, she wanted to love, she wanted to drink the forbidden fruits and consume the darkness, deciding for herself if the taste was truly evil.
After years of feeling trapped within her body, a sort of insanity took her suddenly. She had to escape but was it really possible? To escape a life of thoughts not her own? She found herself on the other side of the world. She danced and drank and loved. That darkness she was trying to avoid tasted sweet. The only foulness left were the traces left on her soul from a life of denying who she was, who she is.
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Poetry Plates Series
This series contains nine, unique plates, all adorned in delicate, cobalt blue illustrations. These illustrations are inspired by a handful of my favourite poems, spanning hundreds of years from Yeats to Mary Oliver. Each plate is an expression of what I find most powerful within the written texts they are based on.
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Creatures of Change
Focusing on personal memories, the Creatures of Change series is a collection of sculptures and objects that depict and embody memories of change. The works are stylistically and thematically divided into two groupings: one focusing on memories of growth, the other on death. Utilising organic shapes and lines, the works aim to express the need for life, death and change within our lives as these natural forces shape and mould us into who we are.
Influenced by organic shapes, textures and colours, the two groupings are characterised by specific physical attributes. The growth works exhibit shapes of seeds or blossoming flowers, they grow outwards representing the outward growing we experience throughout life. They exhibit signs of expansion and movement through cracked surfaces and exude life as signified by the colour green. The death shapes are represented by tree stumps, a common gravestone symbol. The dead shapes are textured with broken and crumbling edges and sharp corners, symbolic of the feelings those in mourning experience. The death works are decorated with a deep, moody blue, conjuring up sadness and thoughtfulness.
Accompanied by small hanging pieces which represent fragmented memories, the two sets of sculptures share a sense of druid creation. These creatures, with jointed legs, have a sense of life and movement. Born of memory, they embody a sense of willingness to change and respect for nature. Change as brought by life and death is a force beyond our power, these works endeavour to show the grasp change has on us and the power of our memories.
