Coco Guys
Coconut shell lamps from found materials with cast plaster and ceramic bases.
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Recent Work
Marbled Paper
Gouache on various uncoated paper types, marbled using size made from carragheen moss (a seaweed found off the west coast of Ireland).
Scagliola Headboard in Walnut Frame
Headboard Panel made of scagliola – the Italian craft of manipulating plaster for mock marble architectural inlays.
Material explorations: Scagliola
Learning to marble with plaster in the studio of scagliolista Fabiola Lunghetti, outside Florence
Pojagi Patchwork
Window-hanging commission for a house in Pimlico. Inspired by the Korean technique of pojagi. Patched from off-cuts of hand-dyed georgette, paper silk, cotton and silk-linen blend.
DISTILLERS UNIFORMS
Design project for whiskey distillery in the Hebrides with visual cues given by the island landscape and Harris Tweed.
Obelisk Marbling
Uniforms for a paper marbling workshop. The workshop was set up by artist Giles Round as an installation in National Trust house Nostell.
Choices on Behalf of Others
The installation questions given cultural systems and contemporary politics of self, introducing ideas around the ‘individual’ and the ‘collective’. Exhibition attendees are invited to walk through the liminal space between self and other, where hundreds of fragile porcelainesque forms draw our attention to shared human commonalities. …
THE HIKE TO CALAIS
Tent Repair Kits for Calais Prompted by political chaos in the UK this year, I wanted to passionately speak up for the benefits of immigration. Inward movement of people from other cultures always enriches the countries and communities those people arrive in, …