port folio

Headpiece made
from card, wool,
paint

Artist
investigation

Crochet and oil
painting,
Acknowledging women’s historical textile
work

Artwork responses to
Jenny Saville
What captivates me about Saville is her approach
to challenge traditional depictions of women in
art, by presenting nude women in ways that don’t
relate to sexual objectification or idolisation

Exploring the concept conventional
body standards
- foam, wool,
stuffing

Clay
sculpture
Focusing on crafting
‘a droopy figure’ to
highlight Saville’s
critique of historical
objectification in
nude art

Sarah Lucas response piece
-crafted using felt and stuffing

Replicating natural
patterns

Beetroot dying

Using stitching to
replicate ‘plant veins’

Results

By peeling back the layers, I
explored the concept ‘is beauty only
skin deep?’

Lino print experimentation
Reversing patterns and
stripping away facial
features (discovering
abstracting a photo)

Zoe Buckman response
- Figures represent women at large (suggesting
simple features). This piece highlights the phrases
women are told regularly. Despite being told to
‘Smile Love’ and accessed of ‘asking for it’, we
stand resilient
I aimed to
embroider
this design
onto a
chosen item.

By using underwear, I aim to
reclaim a symbol of femininity.
The underwear shifts from being
a sexualised garment to an
expression of strength and
identity as a woman.

@cromella.illustrations

Exploring the sexualised
concept of ‘the red dress’
Drawing comparisons between
women and meat due to the
objectification faced by women

Fabric patchwork- imitating meat

Lettering crafted
in meat string
and leather,
depicting women
as meat produce.

Observing
the
transparency
and
connotations
of an onion

Crying onion
- hot glue, glitter, wire
fabric
Crying girl
- acetate photo graph, sewing beads

Representing myself as
an onion, the layers
depict depth to human
emotion with tears at
the centre.
I considered the
interplay of
transparency,
delicacy and
reflection

To develop further, I suspended
the onions from a box
surrounded in mirror, to
emphases reflection and the
idea of infinity tears.

-cycling
While attempting to
become more
sustainable, I noticed
a similarity in the
colours of a stained
hoodie and a fabric
vintage artwork.