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Art Direction & Design

Portfolio of selected art direction and design work. Please get in touch via the contact form if you would like to enquire about art direction or design services. 

In The Absence of Formal Ground

This project is a love letter to all the ways in which we keep moving, building and making space for each other. Formed through a series of connections made through the East and South East Asian Network in Liverpool, the work spotlights three performance artists (Nadia Anim, Vera Chok and Pei Tong) Using the streets of Liverpool as a platform for each individual, these photographs and conversations are a demonstration of taking up space. A presentation of continued movement in a city with a history of migration and community led action.

The work showcases these stories through print and digital media, featuring a newspaper broadsheet, audio stories and super8 film. Using these materials, forms of archival storytelling are subverted through communal and performance practices. Through mixed media, these stories offer different forms of engagement through image, written interviews, video and audio. Accompanying the newsprint, links to each performer's audio story are printed on a piece of card. After listening to their stories, these cards can be planted into soil, where the embedded seeds will grow into wildflowers.

The use of regenerative materials offer an invitational safeguarding practice to all who engage with the stories. Through invoking an act of care into the listening of these stories, there becomes an exercise in building roots and collective ground making. It calls into consideration the actions we take to share and protect stories as a community. 

Examples of the double printed seed cards made with compostable paper and vegetable ink. The QR code on the back linked to a digital space where the audio stories of each person interviewed could be heard, alongside a short film and collection of images.

These are provided in supplement to the newsprint, which features conversations and images with each performance artist, discussing what it means to take up space, how we build community in the spaces around us, and how conscious movement can be a radical act. 

Presenting the work through these mediums allowed the stories to be transportable, defying the traditional confines of gallery presentation and offering accessible forms of engagement with mixed media. 

(un)titled publication

Established in 2017, (un)titled was created as a means to build a community and platform for emerging creatives. Since then, we have released three online issues, produced a limited edition print anthology issue, hosted events and aimed to uplift organisations and artists that share our values of inclusion and the consideration of ethics, responsibility and agency within changing media. With a particular focus on a youth audience, due to there being a lack of forums available, we want to create a space where individuals can feel in control of their own narrative and be included alongside both emerging and established professionals and to allow a space for these conversations to co-exist.