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COLLABORATE

This piece started life as a solo-work, a pencil study of some balloons. Over the course of a New Years party some small guests got their hands on it and added their own pencil marks. I got out my big box of craft supplies and the canvas was passed from guest to (increasingly inebriated) guest. Since then, every time I have a house party an addition is made. I gave no guidelines to participants, just that they add their own mark to the work. So far a glass blower, film maker, archaeologist, drag-queen-wannabe and educator have contributed.

Party Piece
Party piece
Collaborative research
Interactive Installations

Black and White featured a glass box with images of my face screen-printed on all sides. Ballot papers with ' black' or 'white' were displayed alongside it and viewers were invited to vote on which race they identified me as. As a mixed race woman my racial identity is often in flux, if I identify as a person of colour I feel like I'm exoticising my background, but if I identify as white I feel guilty. By giving the decision to others I maintained my control over how I identified myself, but was able to force a question on race as a social construct amongst the audience.

Tea for You experimented with notions of value and ownership. I threw tea bowls for every student in my level, with their names carved into them. They were then chained to a tea trolley. After explaining that the bowls were for them I served everyone tea. I had imagined that they would fight against the constraints of the chains, but instead they all held with the traditions of tea time, chatting politely and complimenting the snacks. When they finished they simply walked away, no one claimed their bowl. When I later asked why they reasoned that it would have been rude, akin to leaving any tea party with a tea cup stuffed in your pocket, and that they had valued the experience rather than the material.

Adult classes
Adult workshops

Working with varied groups of adults allows me to create work that reflects my own practices and the experiences of those involved. Whilst working with adults with dementia we created a range of ceramic pendants, which were chunkier and more colourful than my own work- decisions lead by the group. When speaking to students about my work I give them brightly coloured play-doh to respond to my presentations in real-time, when I've finished speaking about my work we can look at their rough 'self-portraits' to see how they would approach my medium- not only giving them greater insight into my techniques but inspiring me to look at my work with fresh eyes.

Lily and cate
Lily and Cate aren't Doing Great

A semi-regular podcast with bestie Cate Beatie.

 

A space for grown women to feel all their emotions, including the not happy ones. With segments dedicated to reviewing the youtube videos we self-prescribe as coping methods, providing pessimistic advice and self-care style recipes (Deprecipes!) these are the conversations of two twenty-something women who are feeling...okay.

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