ABOUT

My collection, named MECHANICAL PRIMORDIAL came from the idea of recreating a metaphorical puppet show, which represents my personal beliefs on today’s Western Society. ‘Mechanical’ refers back to our individual selves as human beings within society; essentially we are all in place and constructed within this world to hold it all together.
However, today’s Western Society is governed by Capitalist ideologies of Globalisation and Imperialism, which metaphorically leaves us as a sort of puppet in our own show. Rules, laws and regulations that we don’t fully agree with to some extent, but still accommodate ourselves in Society without fighting back govern us.
A cultural revolution, which was evident in fighting against the ‘Norm’, was the appearance of DADA in Art during the early 20th Century. Retrospectively, I am referencing the silhouettes and juxtapositions of the resources/ performances and pieces during this highly creative and experimental era.
My research continues with the classic drapery of the early 20th Century Greek/Turkish conflict in addition to the concept of movement, deconstruction and multi-utilities of travel. I continue to look at differential references of the Shadow Puppet Theatre ‘Karagiotis’ and Lindsay Kemp’s extraordinary influence of Punk in the 1970’s to David Bowie and the theatricality of Marcel Marceau.

The wooden dress component was made in collaboration with product design students Alex Round and Beau Birkett.