SKINny skin skin

yeah thats right.skunk anansie are BACK!and currently on tour around the world.stylist kim howells commissioned me to make a few pieces for skins tour wardrobe. i met kim when i was making some of these gold card pieces for Fred Butler as part of her A/W 10 collection film 'Sunshowers'.we decided they would look great on skin so i made her this gold shoulder piece and some matching cuffs in gold and a fresh gun metal grey.hopefully we'll have some tour pics of skin soon.cant wait.weak as i aaaaaaaaaam!!!

ESKA

the beautiful Eska wearing my gold ear piece for her recent gig in brixton. Eska also worked some of the gold kryptonite recently at glastonbury where she was vocalist with Matthew Herberts big band.Matthew is playing field day this year, i cant wait to see them live again.

colour me bad

giant colour pencils for lazy oafs new stationary display at the the tate! pencil me in.

knitting nancy

my childhood knitting doll nancy has come back into my life and has so far spawned this wooly beaut.i made this necklace for supermarket sarah when she was doing an installation at selfridges.this necklace and more of my wares will be able to buy at sarahs event at tatty devine on the 15th of july.come!

me, garfield, hockney

read about me and some of the best boys in my life, yeah that includes you kenny (dad).a very nice blog about me here.i look like a dickhead but nevermind.those are my david hockney glasses and my current favourite vogue themed dvd's.

de nile

to celebrate the launch of lazy Oafs drawing club range of t-shirts, which includes my lovely cleopatra garms, the oafs had a little party.me and my studio friend/girl for life, chrissie abbott did some LIVE drawing.we both like egypt so we made this.here we are laughing.we do it very well.probably more so than live drawing.yeeeeeeaayy.

cleopatra

you can now buy my cleopatra t-shirt from my lovely friends Lazy Oaf, online and in their stores.its very nice.

selfridges window

i assisted the lovely fred butler last month with her wonder room window at selfridges, making her some nests for her paper birds and doing the double night shifts of installing.selfridges at 4am-not as much like 'Mannequin' as we had hoped.her scheme was called "metropolis ridiculous".look at these pictures.nuff said.

my bodys telling me yes

thankyou to everyone who came down to visit me at the valentines fayre on sunday.i fed my black heart with black drinks and had a lovely time.here is the filth wrapping paper i had to offer amongst my wares.

selfridges beauty

At the end of last year me and seb did some work making mini sets for Studio Toogood.here are some prep shots and a few of the final ads for the Selfridges beauty campaign.

is that a ritz?

no eddie.these crackers were made by me and my boy sebs as a christmas mailout for Madmedia.after screenprinting my illustrations we cut+folded+glued+tied 100 of these beauts in time for christmas.phew! seems like years ago already.actually im quite happy about that memory being distant.

SHOWstudio with BISHI

easily one of my favourite days in 2009 came right at the end, just before christmas.my beautiful friend Bishi asked me to make her a necklace for her portrait with SHOWstudio's Nick Knight, part of his 100 portraits project celebrating  30 years of i-D magazine.here are some of my shots of bishi backstage and in the studio at Somerset House.what a thrill to be able to watch Bishi wearing my piece, whilst she is photographed by THE Nick Knight! what a guy.non stop charming.Thankyou to my girl Fred Butler.without her friendship this year, id have never made it to this place.Fred watched the live stream of this shoot excitedly from her studio and took some screen grabs of NIck and Bishi at work.look here.