These installations retrace the learning through interaction that occurred in our homes as we were growing up. These everyday processes help to establish some of the most fundamental actions that our bodies perform – and will carry out thousands of times throughout our lifetimes. A tangible visual record of something so critical, yet often overlooked is created, providing a constant reminder that we have the ability to physically affect our surroundings.

The measuring jugs use the product language of the family kitchen and the laboratory to reveal elements of scale, risk, arbitrariness, volumes and numbers that are present in science. ‘You’re one in a million’ is a poster for the home with a million dots, one of which is yellow. It makes super scale tangible in a world where most science is too big or small to see.

2. Curious Carpet
a rug that becomes a costume.

3. Eldwidge Castle
a playscape doorway similar to a dollhouse.

4. Spiral Slidecase
a spiral staircase with a slide.

5.Hand Rail
a new take on the handrail.

6.High Chair
a chair with built in stilts.

While this worked to a certain extent on busy streets, it was far from perfect. I began looking at animals that mimic as a form of camouflage, and tried to implement this into an urban situation.

The one thing that seems to dominate the streets of London, are black bin bags, they are so abundant that they have become invisible… the perfect camouflage. When the wearer crouches down, the dress can be lifted over their head, revealing the bin liners.  Simple as that.

The sentence draws the importance of shredding personal details to avoid identity fraud. The undulating pattern at the bottom of the piece shows an abstract cityscape, the scene of the crime.

I wanted to capture this moment in its entirety by suspending the branches in space, so it appears to float, completely detached and isolated from its surroundings.

The branches have been rendered in a stylised, almost abstract form to exaggerate the re-contextualisation of the object itself and the colour selections help to push this further.

The use of a real plastic bag as the diffuser creates a stark contrast with the finely crafted branches that display it, and enables the mood of the light to be altered by either crumpling the bag up or replacing it with one in a different colour or graphic.

Physicists have been developing sophisticated theories around the existence of things that are impossible for us to see, perfecting mathematical models of the ‘beyond-visible’ worlds of the very large and distant (using Einstein’s theory of relativity) and the very small (using quantum mechanics).

Focusing on this realm of the intangible, I wanted to explore how abstract theoretical ideas can be visually represented. I also wanted to play with the notion that today’s cutting-edge theories may one day be seen as quaint and curious museum pieces: theoretical antiques or abstract junk.

Perhaps the objects might be found in someone’s dusty attic or turn up on Antiques Roadshow in the future: “Oh my! Look what they thought in 2008!”