Some ideas refuse to stay in your head
I've been making things for as long as I can remember.
I started sewing as a child and making jewellery at 10. Since then, that curiosity has wandered through fashion, millinery, textiles, jewellery, furniture, interiors and art.
The Creative Process is where I give it somewhere to go.
It's a collection of creative experiments and tutorials exploring what happens between “I wonder if I could make that?” and actually making the thing.
Occasionally this takes an afternoon.
Occasionally it takes 60 hours and raises several questions about my judgement.
The Creative Process
on YouTube
My workshop just got a camera
Long before YouTube, I taught creative workshops in Byron Bay.
I loved breaking down a process, experimenting with materials and showing people how to take an idea and make it their own.
My YouTube tutorials are really an extension of that.
The workshop now has a camera.
And I can edit out some of the swearing. and stuttering.
The scale changes. The thinking doesn't
A piece of jewellery. A garment. A piece of furniture. An entire room.
They may look like very different creative problems, but I'm interested in the same things:
Colour
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Proportion
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Material
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Texture
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Function
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Detail
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Colour 〰️ Proportion 〰️ Material 〰️ Texture 〰️ Function 〰️ Detail 〰️
I experiment with textiles, fashion, jewellery, hardware, art and objects because working across different materials keeps me curious.
That thinking inevitably finds its way back into my professional work.
A textile might inspire an interior palette. A fastening might spark an idea about hardware.
And sometimes I simply really want to make a chainmaille top.
Not everything needs a strategic objective.
A few things I've made
CHAINMAILLE FOR DATE NIGHT, NOT KNIGHTS
Created in collaboration with The Ring Lord, this project explored chainmaille as fashion rather than armour, turning metal rings into a surprisingly wearable metallic top.
A lot of metal. A lot of repetition. Not a horse or medieval battle in sight.
PAPER WINGS
A 60-hour labour of love exploring paper, repetition and form, and what happens when “I'll just make one more” gets wildly out of hand.
BLEACH TIE-DYE
An experiment in transforming existing garments with bleach, pattern and some fairly irreversible decisions.
The finished thing is only half the story
I'm interested in what happens between the idea and the outcome.
The experiments that work. The ones that don't. The material that behaves beautifully and the material that develops its own agenda.
Those decisions, mistakes and unexpected discoveries are part of the process.
Because creativity rarely travels in a perfectly straight line.
And frankly, that would make for a fairly boring tutorial.
Come into my workshop
Follow The Creative Process on YouTube for tutorials, experiments, behind-the-scenes making and whatever material I've become temporarily obsessed with next.
Or explore the other side of my work