Number plates

Whenever I'm walking around by myself, I always check out number plates. I also play the game when you try to make new words by only adding vowels between last three letters (I'm a sucker for word games). Here are some of my favourites I've collected lately ...

 RIP YSL

 My initials

 ooooeeemmmmgeeeee

 Marie's car

 

etc etc etc .. you get the picture, I like this kind of thing.

Self portrait

Click here to see some photos of making and explanation...

I won't miss

I won't miss all the sirens late at night, I live behind a police station.
I won't miss being told to wash my hair

I will miss being able to walk to most places in London though.

Ideas

I spend a large amount of my time travelling on trains and tubes, between east and west. So I guess that's a situation where I get a lot of ideas and times to think things through. I go through quite a lot of sketchbooks, I think its important to write as well as draw your ideas.

Also I feel like I get a lot of ideas in situations when you can't really say your own ideas because other people are in charge. For instance when I was interning at the art department at ELLE, I came up with so many ideas in a day because I was thinking of ways they could improve what they do but couldn't voice it because it would be unproffessional, but I can apply it in my own practice - if that makes sense!

10 things about me

Ten things about me in less than one minute.

The Future

In ten years time I will be ...

It's hard enough for me to think about what I'll be up to in ten months time, yet alone ten years!
I will be 29 years old. And hopefully I will be up to all the things that I'm up to now but doing more collaborations, in different places and on a bigger scale. And hopefully being crazy busy, there's nothing worse than nothing to do. And still learning loads.

Shows/Galleries/Events (iii)

Girls+Zines @ Tatty Devine

This is the show that I curated this summer! After completing my foundation I just wanted to do my own thing and write my own brief for once. I have been making zines since I was fifteen and it's such a big part of my life, so I wanted to put on a show to celebrate all the brilliant people who make zines in their bedrooms at night. My friends at Tatty Devine were kind enough to host the show and it runs till late September. 

The show consisted of a zine library that people could browse and donate their own zines to, I really wanted to encourage reading so I created beanbags and a seating area for people to lounge in. I received an overwhelming amount of submissions to the show so I created a zine exchange where people could bring along their own publication and do a swap. I screen printed my own publication to go with the show, also. After the show I am donating all the publications to the Women's Library in Shoreditch to be archived and read by future generations.

It was really exciting putting on my own show! As it was my first time doing one by myself, I have learnt so much and also thought of so many ways I can improve it.
It would be great to do another one next summer or even a pop-up shop.
 

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Hello. I hope this blog gives you a bit of an understanding of what influences me, what I like and what I get up to! 

This is my desk on a bad day.