Make Up Tips

Make Up Tips is probably my favourite out of the films I made in Third Year at DJCAD. I had the notion after I started to look at the cotton pads I used to take my make up off, they had a perfect little print of my mascara. As I started to collect more I turned them in to an animation. I thought about my make up rituals of application and removal and I liked the remnants left on the cotton pads. They tell a story, and so I told a story. The voice over is me recounting facts and quotes about make up processes which came from numerous sources and conversations I have heard, from my mother, grandmother, and due to spending 3 years as a make up consultant, many women in the cosmetics business.

Engendering Dialogue II: Seeing Things Differently 30/31 March 2012

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Engendering Dialogues was a recent conference I had the pleasure of attending as well as being the photographer. It took place at the DCA in Dundee for two days. Full of interesting and inspiring talks from writers and thinkers such as Christine Battersby, Tina Chanter and Kerstin Mey and an excellent exhibition from artists Beth Fisher, Ingrid Pollard and Gina Wall.

The aim of the conference was to bring together talented women from the differing fields of art and philosophy and see what new and interesting things they had to say. The two days covered topics from obscenity, architecture, the f-word, mother/daughter twinning, self and Other, as well as rethinking the female body in art. It was a great success and my only complaint would be that we simply didn't have long enough to explore all of those ideas in two days. We are not quite super-women yet! 

Caul Series

Veil - Film Stills and Book Work

Veil Performance at Visualyze

Visualyze was an art exhibition that took place in November 11th 2010 at Dundee University Students Union and showcased a range of talents from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. For my performance piece I selected some women to be models and others to apply make up to the veiled models. Once finished we carefully removed the veils from each model and put them on display. Each was different due to the style and choices of the artists.

Veil Photographs

These were the initial photographs that I took before creating the lithography prints. I experimented with colour, make-up and props.

Veil Prints

Veil #1

Veil #2

These are photographic lithography prints, I used black and blue ink and different paper textures. Veil #2 was printed on to hand made paper.