C O M M I S S I O N S & C O M M U N I T Y P R O J E C T S
Chelsea Flower Show 2004: The Australian Garden Commissioned by: Rose Tinted PR Prawn & Citrus Dresses
The Daily Mail, May 2004.
To keep fresh and cool during transit, the prawn dress was packaged for delivery in a styrofoam suitcase with heaps of icecubes.
Working up from the bottom:
lemon and lime dress.
The team. From left to right: Shelley Campbell, Helen Anderson, Rose Wordsworth and Olivia Turner.
International Women's Day 2003 Wallpaper - Female Figures
Having been asked to decorate the venue where the Stroud International Women's Day event was convening, friend and artist Rose Wordsworth and I designed four linocut patterns of female figures from antiquity and fertility symbols. Each print was uniquely made using poster paint and rice paper. One by one, we attached separate images to the wall using pins. It was our version of *wallpaper*.
We made hundreds of individual impressions.
Chelsea Flower Show 2002: National Trust Vegetable Dress
For my part in this team project, I was commissioned to design and make the cabbage skirt. Organised in six separate panels and structured on bamboo hoops, I treated the cabbage leaves to this injustice about 12 hours before curtain call.
Commission 2003 Wedding Banners
July 2003. Eighteen banners: ripstop.
International Women's Day 2002 Wallpaper Banners
For the 2002 International Women's Day event in Stroud, I was asked to furnish the venue with an inexpensive, decorative and ambient effect. With friend and artist Melanie Russell, cut-out feminine torsos from rolls of lining paper stapled onto bamboo poles were hung from the rafters.
Chelsea Flower Show 2001: National Trust Grass Outfits
The Times, 22nd May 2001.
I was commissioned by the National Trust to provide outfits and chairs comprised of growing grass for their stand at the Chelsea Flower Show. The stunt was designed in order to draw attention to the diminishing peat reserve in the boglands of Ireland. As a significant component of compost in commercial nurseries, and having unregenerative growing properties, peat is dangerously over-harvested. As an eco-message, the National Trust commissioned the grass pieces to be grown in peat-free compost created by Petersfield Growing Mediums. This project launched a number of further collaborations with the National Trust and other of their affiliates.
Petersfield Growing Mediums 2002 Plastic Bag Dresses
For continuing exposure to the ecofriendly peat-free compost produced by Petersfield Growing Mediums, I was commissioned to design and make two dresses using the plastic bags in which the product is marketed.
Back view of one dress.
Aboriginal Art Primary Cluster Project 2001 Aboriginal Map of Randwick
Randwick C of E, April 2001
Inspired by aboriginal artwork, the painting reflects this traditional style applied to an ordinance survey grid reference for Randwick, Gloucestershire. Coming about through a month-long art scheme with three primary schools, invited artists led workshops, created a permanent artwork for each participating school and curated an exhibition consisting of a piece of artwork from every child in a collegial event at the Museum in the Park, Stroud.