Made.com Exhibition

I was chosen to be in the top 20 to be judged to maybe win, ooohhh. I did not, but thats ok... This is my exhibition.

Klee

I love Bauhaus. Love it. Started researching Paul Klee for this project, and realised he had actually spent time in Tunisia and some of the paintings are of places I have been! Things like that are great aren't they... Makes me happy.

Tunisie

As you can quite clearly see, I am no whizz kid with a camera, in fact I don't even have a good camera, some of these were taken on my blackberry... However, my lovely Sean tells me the day I take a better photograph than him he will marry me... So I am going to get better. These are a few of the thousands, and when I say thousands I am neither joking nor embellishing, of photos I took on our 14 day trip to Tunisia. I am currently working on a project at uni with Made. com and Monkey biz to create 4 40x40 knitted panels, using this trip as my inspiration ...

Minerals

These fabrics are inspired both by the minerals in the collections at Swiss Cottage Museum.

Louise Bourgeois

Who else?

When I saw the minerals I thought of two things, latex and Louise. They are very nearly the same thing in my head...

Swiss Cottage Museum

This is the collection of Queen Victoria's children. It out grew their wendy house, which is far larger and grander than my real house, so a neighbouring museum was built. The light in this place is divine. It has taxidermy, minerals, artefacts from many many cultures... And so many random bits and bobs. It is insane. Photos are forbidden, however I gained special permission from the director of Osbourne House. If I remember correctly, I am aloud to post these, but I have lost the agreement and my memory fails me so I have only put up a taster. I am so grateful for being aloud this privilege, all the staff there were so helpful and lovely and let us pop down to the private beach too!

A frolic to Queen Vic's private beach!

Alternative Fashion Week

Well, I love the Victorians. Because they were dirty bitches in secret, but prim in public. That's what I like to see. This is the outfit Alice Munteanu and I made for Alternative Fashion Week 2010. She made the lacey leotard, and I made the hand crochet skirt. I hand dyed the yarn and then spent weeks crocheting, made a wooden frame and set the skirt on top of it with wallpaper paste.