Welcome and let’s talk about resin…

admin — Sun, 08 Jun 2014 21:19:30 +0000

Hello! Welcome to my website and blog. I took the photos myself and a look book will be available soon. Thanks to Lucy who helped me out with the website..

So, let’s talk about resins… and degree show work…

In case you were wondering the resin I have used is a thermosetting synthetic liquid which forms a solid object when you mix it together with a setting catalyst. This is then set in a silicon mould to the shape of my choice,

I then dye the liquid resin with whatever coloured pigment I like (pastels, chalks, crayons) creating a beautiful spectrum of colours.

Finally I embed dyed fabrics, threads and materials within my moulds to create interesting patterns, colour contrast and to reflect the textile like qualities found in some of my sketchbooks. Once the resin is set I can file and polish the newly formed material and then it is ready to be set within one of my designs.

Hanging work

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:17:52 +0000

As our degree show and New designers approach, it is tools down and time to prepare.
Despite being very concerned for our neighbours over in the school of fine art and albeit a little sleep deprived everyone pulled together and managed to construct and hang our fourth year pieces. The support from our tutors and technicians was excellent and the hard work felt like it was beginning to pay off. AI thought I would give you a sneak peak of the hanging process:

Ring-layouts in the small glass box situated on the fourth floor of the Seona Reid building.

Loose drawings of my work stuck to my board in order to the plan the layout for my pieces

Hanging the first and second pieces… Only another 23 to go!

And some compositions…

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Welcome and let’s talk about resin…

Hanging work