As a graphic designer and illustrator I work primarily using analogue processes to explore both still and moving visuals. I love textures, imperfections and colour. This year I have been responding intuitively to sound using various forms of animation. I’ve also explored lettering throughout my practice. I’m excited by type design but I’m not a big fan of rules in the type world - this has led to interesting challenges but I really enjoy exploring a more illustrative approach to typography.
Woke Girlies: The development of visual culture for activism by women, from placards to Instagram posts. This curatorial rationale explores the evolution of design activism and its journey from physical ephemera to an online space. With a considerable increase in protest in recent years, design activism has taken on a new role with the aid of social media. It’s become much more common, almost trendy, to focus artwork on social issues. An online platform transforms a movement, work has become digital, more complex and almost fashionable. What used to be placards and symbols of revolt have evolved into a whole genre of visual art. I curated a collection of work to showcase this.
Woke Girlies: The development of visual culture for activism by women, from placards to Instagram posts. This curatorial rationale explores the evolution of design activism and its journey from physical ephemera to an online space. With a considerable increase in protest in recent years, design activism has taken on a new role with the aid of social media. It’s become much more common, almost trendy, to focus artwork on social issues. An online platform transforms a movement, work has become digital, more complex and almost fashionable. What used to be placards and symbols of revolt have evolved into a whole genre of visual art. I curated a collection of work to showcase this.
