Featured work in this book exploring the power of the gothic in visual culture,
LIBERATION SUIT IV: TOUCH MY SOUL, DON’T GRAB
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Phone box, foam, calico , screenprint
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AN ART PIECE PRODUCED IN COLLABORATION WITH AUTHOR MARK CRICK, FOR THE BT ART BOX PROJECT.
To celebrate 25 years of Childline, a number of artists were commissioned to create a new take on the Gilbert Scott phone box.
GILBERT CRICK CELLPHONE
Harlow’s seminal studies on childhood development (1957-1963) offered infant monkeys the choice of two mothers – one for feeding (made of wire, with feeding nipple) and one for comfort (soft and padded, with no feeding nipple). The infant monkeys would spend an overwhelming majority of time on the second, comforting mother, evidencing that contact comfort is a more powerful force in development than basic nutrition.
After reflecting on the role of the telephone box as a refuge for children via Childline, the concept for the phone box comprises of padding the box as an inverted padded cell. The tactile padding of the box invites the viewer to touch and hug its soft, safe and secure exterior. Instead of being imprisoned by the trauma, the viewer can reflect on past traumas.
Childhood itself can be like a padded cell, safe, soft and cocooning, a protection from harm, for others it is smothering, isolating and prison like. Many of us as adults spend the majority of our lives trying to confront and heal from relative levels of abuse.
In a padded cell, you are contained for your own protection, as a shelter from the outside world, to help your recuperation back from “madness”. The padded cell represents the climax of illness by inverting the padded cell it suggest a stage of recuperation and reflection on traumas past.
Commissioned to produce wearable art pieces and props for touring
Worn by band members
Globe headpieces for Royal Opera House 2016
Hand painted costumes for Pet shop Boys World Tour 2010
A disruptive spanking tool
Commissioned by Sam Roddick of Coco de Mer and used by Marilyn Manson.
"God Spank the queen” : a series of guerrilla street spankings held on London streets.
Winner of 2013 Erotic Award for Innovation
As seen across the world after a guerilla spanking incident at The fifty Shades of Gray launch went viral
Set Design and graphics
Selected surreal products and events made for Hendricks
Designed and produced 10 eyeball roses.
Squirts gin 2meters from the eyeball center.
Concept deisgn and production of bespoke shroud for Hendricks Gin Rituals
Concept design and production of Nonsense masks for immersive event
Selected artwork for The Book of Skulls By Faye Dowling
