Tuesday 24 February 2015

Busy Bee




I've been a busy bee in the studio working on my very own dolls house. 

its going to be a replica of my family home scaled right down to model size, i am beyond excited to get started on this


Tuesday 17 February 2015

At Home In a Dolls House - V&A Museum of Childhood

The most inspiring thing i have seen in the last few months happen to be an exhibition designed to entertain children, says a lot about me really doesn't it.

Security, privacy and the comfort of things have remained priorities for British homes for over 300 years, Dolls Houses can reflect these ideals back to us. They can be autobiographical, stage dreams and desired and provide an alternative to real life. 

my degree show is coming up in the next few months and i was really struggling with what i wanted to do for the final show, until i walked into this museum.

i think i want to build a replica Dolls House for my family home. how i am going to do that is a totally different matter but i am sure i'll work it out in the next few weeks
















Dolls House Improved

after installing the wire hanging house i realised that there were many faults with the structure of the house which needed to be improved upon before I can go onto making anything something a little more complicated.

the below pictures demonstrate the stages of development of the new house. 

                                          Wooden Structure 



                                            same wallpaper that was used on the wire house 



                                          wooden roof structure and a plastic roof 




Dolls House

The Dolls House 

MATERIALS: Garden wire
Muslin fabric, the pattern of the wallpaper is transferred onto the muslin using image maker 




Wallpaper



Wallpaper made by rotating, layering and repeating 
the drawings of the four bedrooms 

    Abbey Road 


    Holmbridge Gardens

    Holmbridge Gardens - Part 2

    Meadway

Biro Drawings


                                Meadway


                               Holmbridge Gardens - Part 2


                                Holmbridge Gardens


                                Abbey Road

The Four Bedrooms - Collage



    Abbey Road




    Holmbridge Gardens 





    Holmbridge Gardens - Part 2





    Meadway

The Four Bedrooms


NEW PROJECT

Depression and the domestic space (bedroom)

I dont really know what I am doing at the moment all I know is I have to do something new. of course I'll be sticking to the same themes as before because well... as they are themes that keep in engaged in the work.

I have decided to look at the bedroom, I have four. one at my parents, one in a student house and two at my grandparents.

like I said, I don't really know what I am doing other than exploring these places of comfort I different media