Graduate from BA Illustration at Camberwell College of the Arts
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The Nomadic Gardens Winter Festival Exhibition

I was part of a team that organised the Nomadic Gardens Winter Festival Exhibition as a chance to celebrate the Nomadic Gardens by exhibiting artwork that  responded to the unique space.

Queen’s Park Nomadic Garden is a DIY social space built amongst the urban sprawl of North West London. It is frequented by locals and their children who have formed a small, friendly community that helps maintain the garden, participate in arts activities, or simply hang out. It’s run by anyone who can contribute a skill, be it building, gardening, cooking, or anything else. Many artists have contributed murals to the garden walls, and held inclusive workshops in the space. 

Amongst the raised beds, we built a structure to hang my 'Flobiles'. I have been making, exhibiting, and selling 'Flobiles' since final year of my Illustration degree at Camberwell College of Arts. Throughout my time there I became inspired by artists like Yayoi Kusama to obsessively and playfully make things. I realised I liked to use repetitive processes as a way of thinking. I feel like their colours and shapes complimented the Nomadic Gardens. More images of them in other spaces as well as info on my other work can be found on the other pages of my website here.

During the opening party for the exhibition we had live music from The Giving Style; live painting by Emanuel Leal; decorate-your-own biscuits by Alice Wickens; collaborative mosaicking facilitated by myself; and during the closing event I created rubbings of the mosaics that were made: