✨ EXHIBITION ✨
📍 Hangar Space, Battersea RCA Campus
🗓️ April 16, 5-7pm
As part as AcrossRCA, 25 teams are showcasing their work in a collective exhibition. Come discover or rediscover our project ‘Covered in Cares’
Drinks, creative vibes & inspiring projects 🍸
🎟️ Free entry 🎟️ link in bio
image credit : @craiola.um
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Covered in Cares (2026) is a new collaborative photographic‑textile work that seeks to visualise the invisible labour of mothers. The project began with a survey listing nearly a hundred tasks required for a household and family to function. Each mother’s responses were translated into a personalised mental‑load map, organised into nine colour‑coded categories of workload. We then visited them in their daily routines, observing what they were doing in that exact moment and photographing them in their real environments. Onto each portrait, we embroidered their mental‑load map directly over their bodies. The more they do, the less we see. In this tension between visibility and invisibility, the photograph reveals who they are, while the embroidery gently obscures them, reflecting how care work is simultaneously ever‑present and yet so often unseen.
The last two images present a complete mental‑load map alongside the detailed tasks from the survey, serving as reference points for the project.
Artist Team: @oncle_douglas@audreypiedfort@alyssodesign@the_lifeofpai
“ON TAP”
A circular-economy pub stool crafted from discarded kegs and brewing byproducts. This project transforms the physical remains of the brewing process (Brewers Spent Grain, Brewers Spent Yeast) into a structural material. Imagine sitting in a pub, enjoying a pint on a chair that is not only made from beer’s ingredients but subtly retains its malty smell...the full pub experience.
Last slide: how I was running around to get this project down in time 🤗 @idecourse
Found an old scale in a charity shop.
Project goal: redesigning the scale using sustainable design principles. In this case minimising the No. of components facilitating easy disassembly:))
THE ORIGINAL BASKET, the starting point of the FLAX project.
Traditional Greek basket making technique using locally sourced flax wood. These baskets were originally made for draining different kinds of local cheeses.
The future is handmade
FLAX is a basket weaving kit - bed side table lamp
Inspired by traditional Greek basket weaving techniques, this project aims to honor the Greek crafts by creating a contemporary piece of DIY lighting design.
The past and the present intertwined through the juxtaposition created by the choice of materials and textures. The natural hues of the seagrass with the artificial-modern feel of the orange 3D TPU rings bring the FLAX identity to life.
