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My beaded gloves for @thefacemagazine latest issue.
Photographer: Lengua
Stylist: @reed_danny
Make-up: @thomasdekluyver
Hair Franziska: Presche
Set designer: David White
Production: Jessica Canje
Made clothes based on my sister and the people of Portsmouth.
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This 3D printed mask is the result of digitally scanning both a deer and wolf skull, creating this hybrid.
This new face is symbolic of the deformed feelings I have towards my life and what I have been made to feel by others and my human experience.
My work is engaged with the ideas of the Nomad - the displaced individual without a place of rest. Coming from a working-class background in the city of Portsmouth, and being estranged from family due to issues of queerness, my work responds to specific traumas in my life which act as context for my practice.
My Portfolio is a curation of 11 interrelating objects which includes: 3D printed/bone mask, steel sword, wooden staff, sterling silver knife, ceramic gourd, dinner plate and taxidermy cutlery, camping stove, canvas (title: No Love), canvas (title: Trans-Mission), canvas of geometric family tree (as shown in given images) and chopping bored with matching knife.
Special thank you to @joelsaldeck for helping me create the mask - the mask itself is a result of bringing together 3D scans of both a deer and a wolf skull to create this hybrid. (More images to come)
A Painting of Home
I’ve never made a “work” by picking up a paint brush in such a way before but I enjoyed this.
I sat there after with pebbles I collected form Portsmouth beach under my feet and I it truly felt like I was home watching a sunset.
I’m thinking a lot about my family and this idea of home and harm.
I’m missing you wherever you may be x
My beaded armour being used for an editorial about diversity in fashion for @vogueportugal
It was the biggest privileged to work with @dragsyndrome and I wish nothing but the best form them.
Art direction and photography: @zuzu.valla
Agency: @radicalbeautyproject
My “garments” for @fabootv ‘s new exciting boutique.
I’m really enjoying making these “garments”, they feel like queer armour that somehow also feels religious.
It’s because growing up religions I’m now selling these portraits of myself slowly becoming a monster... no feeling like a monster.
Portfolio equipment:
Red liquid: Beer mixed with dye and chalk.
This “work” is not only a play on colour theory looking at how Blue and Red interact as symbolism within my practice but it’s also a functional device that is needed within my portfolio.
I’m not planning nor wish to make a traditional printed portfolio as I feel this is a waste of money in my personal situation.
However I’m currently undertaking a project where I’m building a rucksack which houses ten objects of work... if that being “painting”, “sculpture”, chopping bored or stove.
This idea and way of being comes from my queer working-class experience as this Nomadic life has been forced onto me by my “family”.
If I ever become near homeless again... then at least I have my work with me and a stove to cook on.
Self-portrait
Medium: Colour-coded meat chopping board found within a commercial kitchen in central London.
A few years ago I was working as hired staff within a commercial kitchen and I found a stack of these boards no longer in use - looking at them I found this mark making interesting as it’s a accumulation of many people cutting through meat and in turn marking this plastic surface.
Work back then was stressful and even now I find labour I’m forced into to keep myself form being homeless hard on my heart.
After lockdown I’m really finding it hard returning to work as I don’t want to continue this feeling of exploitation, I don’t want to sell my life to some business owner which would prefer to hoard money and go on holiday then pay their staff a fair wage.
I don’t want to be like my Dad who works two jobs to simply feed his family. I didn’t understand his stress when I was young, so thank you Dad and I’ve learnt now why you were an angry person, I’m sorry and I forgive you.