wellity wellity..

My last post stated I'd entered a competition, and now the competition has closed. I guess I can show my piece? 

I've just entered the "upcycler of the year" competition ran by twisted thread. It's based around "upcycling" a vintage garment. Now.. my piece is a little different. Being that I used 3 garments and some upcycled rope I found to create a basket style bag as I feel it reflects me and my work really well. The prize is work experience at TRAID and your work displayed in a shop in camden. I can't even begin to expres how amazing that would be.

The way the competition works is that the pieces are all auctioned off and obviously the one with the highest price, wins! Now I don't have much hope for my piece, as it isn't clothing and I know the general theme for the competition is clothing.

But all I can do is keep my fingers crossed :)

Below is the original garments..

and my upcycled final product..

Work in progress..

I'm not too sure how much I can say at the minute, but I've just entered a competition and this is the work in progress of my entry!

I'm not 100% sure when you can post your work about that you've entered but that is definitely something I will look into for the future, and will of course post a photo of my piece when I can :)

I've really loved making a piece for a competition.. I always love making work, of course I do! But it feels so different when its for a reason.. when you know people WILL see it and will form an opinion of it.

I don't have much hope as I have literally never won ANYTHING but fingers crossed... :)

"work"space

This is really what my desk looks like all the time.. Its suppose to be a clear space where I can think, draw, create. Its really just a pile of stuff and when theres a space, a sketchbooks fills it and I grab a pen and doodle away! I love being surrounded by things that inspire me and objects I care about.. but sometimes I also need a blank canvas. Maybe I need an inbetween?

Photos, scissors, glue (and my new stamps)

Collage is something I did a lot during my foundation degree when I did some work in illustration and for some reason its something I always forget about? But anyway, after I bought my wonderful new stamp set... I decided it was time to combine the two! I love it. Again, I've used some of my favorite quotes that maybe don't relate in any way, shape or form to the imagery but I love them all the same.

Stamp Set

After wanting a new stamp set (i have a very, very tiny one. one so tiny you have to use TWEEZERS to put the letters in place!!) for about.. forever, i decided to finally buy one. I found one for £5 on ebay with £3 postage for all 24 letters but all at different levels meaning it was just a little different.

I spent ages looking for one, and found lots of lovely wooden sets but none of the letters were as big as I wanted them. So I ended up buying a set of plastic ones but I'm glad I did.

I decided to give them a whirl and use them to stamp one of my favourite quotes.

Procktor

I'm so terrible at this blogging buisness! I get so distracted by other things....

SO, recently, I've been working for the current Patrick Procktor exhibition in Huddersfield curated by Ian Massey. Theres a small group of us working as student ambassadors to offer guided tours, information and help about the exhibition.

I was SO excited about getting the opportunity to do this as I'm a big Procktor fan and got to attend the opening night! Which (can you believe it) Johnny Marr from The Smiths attended! Aaaahhh amazing.

Anyway, the exhibition is oustanding, and from the openingn night you can tell how adored Procktor was and how much passion people still have for his work. Go check it out!

Below is my invitation :)