What are your main concerns? 

Most of my studio work is using textiles. I have always had this interest in the tactile abilities of textiles – ‘touchy feely’. I enjoy making costumes and things you can touch and play with. I love lace and thread and all those ribbony bits and pieces. I’m trying to bring textiles into a more fine art form. 

 

What are your biggest influences? 

I think all of my work is based on feminist issues. In first year we formed the Fanny Collective, and since then we’ve been building on ideas of what it means to be a woman in this day and age. I was looking at women in India, but this term I’ve been looking at life as a woman in England. Vaginas and boobs and all of those things. 

 

 

What’s the first thing you do? What’s your process? 

I think I take a lot of influence from the girls around me in the Fanny Collective. One of my pieces started from seeing something a girl did and asking ‘oh, can I use some of that in my work’… so from there we’ve developed her boob installation into a costume installation. I absorb what’s going on around me. 

 

What do you like most about the studio? 

Especially, during this term, having the Fanny Collective around me – seeing the work they’re doing, being influenced by them. There’s a really nice studio culture this term. 

 

 

How has your work changed? 

I think I’m slowly getting more confident in what I’m doing. I made some panty bunting that I really enjoyed, but some of my work is getting more daring. It can be difficult because then obviously you have people that don’t agree with what your doing. I’m learning how to articulate what I’m making and argue my point of view. 

 

What are your plans after graduation? 

Travelling. At some point I’d maybe like to do an MA, or a PGCE but at the moment travelling is my main priority. My work will be able to develop if I’m seeing more things. I’d like to go back to Asia, but there are so many places I want to go to.