Your cleaning products are germ encrusted.

Moving on to objects.

The sponge is the most bacteria filled object in the domestic kitchen. Wiping down your surfaces with the same sponge you wash up with spreads germs and bacteria all over the kitchen, smearing them over the place you prepare food. I see sponges in a very different way now...

Bacteria is getting bigger.

I've been experimenting with scale recently, as working so small is taking a really long time to cover a significant space. I like the pink wool, it has the right texture and fits with the smaller bullion knots. I covered them with glue to give them a sticky texture.

These beads are multiplying.

An idea developed from my summer hand stitch project, where closely grouped beads looked like an underwater sea creature or microscopic growths. The movement is quite disgusting; they flop everywhere. They look like they're stretching up and multiplying.

Germ- filled stains.

Protect against all the germs!

 Cleaning products and bacteria have very similar colour schemes. Fact. I've also found that highlighters are very versatile for mark making.

Colour Stories II- Uber Girly Girly.

I love the shiny, slick plastic textures and extreme, girly, over the top imagery of this story. With the wrapping I wanted layers, multiples and clashing textures, and was inspired by Viktor & Rolf with the ribbons and bows. I found that loads of cleaning paraphernalia is pink, which was intriguing, maybe to make it more appealing for women! Because none of us can resist something pink... obviously.

Colour Story I- 70s Beach Holiday Memories.

I love this theme but it's not a style that I usually work in, and I couldn't pull it past images and photography. Maybe one day.

The beginning of second year was all about drawing, drawing, drawing. These are my favourites from a hefty pile of drawings; sometimes you have to do a lot to get a little. Clingfilm is fast becoming one of my favourite things.

Summer handstitch- Protection against evil.

After looking at the European folk art tradition of using embroidery as a form of protection, I played with the idea of protecting boundaries on cloth. I looked at fencing, barbed wire, fortresses and folklore. Red is my favourite colour to work with, so l loved everything I did for this. And I got well into beading.

Summer project.

 Inspiration painting:

After looking at the characters' tights in Byam Shaw's 'Such is Life', I did a project on... tights, obviously. I started looking first at cording and piping, density and fold. I then moved on to utilising the properties of modern tights, their shrink and stretch. Unfortunately I started to get on a roll just before the start of the term, again! Tights are versatile and interesting though, I'd like to use them in future.

Clothing, gender & identity mini exhibition.

Carried on from some parts of my denim project, these garments have wire in the seams to give them form. I was looking at gender stereotypes in clothing and colour, and how they are reinforced from a young age and throughout life. There were also some ideas about absence of presence and the nuclear family.