Friday, 17 September 2010

Stuffed Shirts and other cushions


I'm always on the look out for new ways to reuse, recycle, upcycle, repurpose, whatever you want to call it stuff I find at charity shops and jumble sales. I particularly like fabric and other textiles, as well as small receptacles. I recently got inspired to make cushion covers from men's shirts, entitling the series 'Stuffed Shirts', as city gents are sometimes that, and the cushions are also stuffed shirts in a way!
I think they nicely compliment my more intricate collage applique cushion covers.








Thursday, 22 July 2010

Smile Quotes slideshow







Quotes used in 'Medicine For Daily Life', a pillbox work with 28 smiles and smile quotes for each day, and an off-shoot concertina book called, 'A Smile Begets a Smile'. It contains a series of photos taken at the 'Smile' exhibition at the Red Gate Gallery in Brixton last March 2010 of people who looked at my piece and their smile. It is an interactive slideshow. Run your mouse over the panels to move and read them.