Planted Pocket

2021

This project formed my entry for the Batsford Illustration Prize 2020/21.

How can individuals experience the natural world when, for the majority of us who live in urban environments, our daily interactions with nature are limited? 

This pair of works, which exist between 2-and 3-dimensions, explores ideas of collective belonging and equilibrium. They seem more unassuming from the outside but undergo a transformation as the viewer engages with and opens them; the main emotional force exists inside the piece, in a location that would require action on the part of the viewer to uncover.

Materiality and sustainability are important considerations in my practice and this was also the case here. The coloured sections were made from recycled plastic food packaging that was painted to achieve the stained glass effect, then applied to the recycled cardboard shell.