FINAL MAJOR PROJECT -Recycled Fantasy Dress

For my FMP, I wanted to show women wanting and wishing to be like the ‘perfect’ celebrities, and fantasising about the beautiful dresses they see in the magazines. Contemplating these aspirations I wondered whether in reality, was this celebrity life as rose tinted and perfect as it seemed? This dress I have made aspires to be beautiful, and it is, but because of the material it is made from, it is in fact quite uncomfortable to wear, showing that beauty is deceiving and that the thought of things is often better than the reality.

Magazines are temporary, fashion is temporary. The reason I wanted to make my dress from magazines is to show that something as temporary as magazine pages can make something as beautiful. Also toying with the controversy of making a fantasy dress from an inexpensive material showing a transformation of an ordinary material into an extraordinary outcome.



PERSONAL PROJECT

For my Personal Project I wanted to explore detail and decoration. Why people want or need decoration and how adding detail to a plain object you can increase its value. To help start the project I visited a number of public buildings, to look at how architechts use decoration to add detail to a building. I wanted to create a link between decoration on buildings that is often over looked, to decoration in the form of jewellery.

OBSERVATIONAL DRAWINGS

I started looking at patterns as a way of decoration and after researching designers such as Rob Ryan and Su Blackwell I decided that I wanted to look at cut out patterns.

Also looking into the idea of wrapping opjects making them seem more important and expensive.

After experimenting with a range of different materials I decided that using the cut out technique, I wasn't going to capture the amount of detail as I wanted.

I searched through my box of old unwanted clothes and found an old lace top, a perfect, ready made, textile version of the cut outs I had wanted to create.

EXPERIMENTATION WITH LACE

FINAL JEWELLERY SET

The idea is you can wear this however you want, clip the rosette onto and item of clothing, in your hair, or clip onto the necklace or bacelet. A multi wearable piece.

Broach/Hair clip



SUBJECT MATTERS

Subject Matter: Pockets

I was to explore pockets, can you define a person by the contense or style of their pocket?

Using recylced clothes and textiles I made a Patchwork Pocket Quilt.The idea that the fabric in which the pocket is made, reflects the owner of the pocket and what may be inside.

PATCHWORK POCKET QUILT



CHRISTMAS TREE

HILTON CANDLE STICK HOLDER

The shape of this candle stick holder was inspired by the unusual shape of the Hilton Hotel in Manchester.

TEA LIGHT LAMPS

For this piece of work we had to take a design we had previously created, and present it on a large scale. It forced me to think creatively how I wanted to present my design and I am very pleased with the outcome...I used 99 tea lights to create the piece. I love the way that the flames make the lamps glow, and the reflections they make on the shiney kitchen floor reminds me of being in a church at night.



TRANSFORMATION

making the ordinary, extraordinary...

My interest for recycled art fitted in perfect with this project...I thought that I would make recylced jewellery. I like the idea of creating something beautiful and valuble out of something you would otherwise throw away...

This necklace is made up of over 50 flattened beer bottle tops.



CARDBOARD CATWALK



'THE ODD COUPLE'

The costumes were inspired by pre 1960's artist Diego Rivera and post 1960's artist Jean Michel Basquiat...

FINAL OUTFITS
Made completely from cardboard for MMU's anual Cardboard Catwalk.



COMPUTER PROJECT

This is the first project I was given when i started the foundation course..The project was to create a computer that reflected qualities of you...I chose to make my computer out of wire and can because I love the idea of recyling matterials to create art, and work by artists such as El Anatsui who often uses recycling in his pieces...I feel that with our ever growing 'green world' recycled art is going to become more and more popular...and necessary.

 

Next I was asked to take my computer and photograph it in situations inspired by certain films, it forced me to look at my work in a completely different way and enabled me photograph my computer in a interesting and humorous manner.

The films I chose were 'Snow White' and 'Singing in the Rain'.