The end of year exhibition must be both an an exciting and scary time for you? It’s the culmination of three years work in about two weeks. High pressure, but great fun and good kicks. The show has a high reputation for the variety, quality and breadth of work, what have you created as your final piece? I sculpt what’s best described as plastic tubes. They are heat pressed as a process and will be displayed across St George Street, strung up between the college buildings. These will be brightly coloured, almost like festival lanterns. 
Liz sits with part of her exhibit |
My degree has been looking at plastics and concentrating on what you can do with plastics in terms of heat pressing and making it into things. This way has worked the best and being able to turn out 90 of them has been fantastic. They can be used for interiors, exteriors, gardens. Outside of art the process is quite industrial. I’m using a massive heat press to layer plastics. They’re heated up to 180 degrees, then I roll them and sculpt them into things. The plastic comes out flat, then I roll them and seam them into tubes as this is the most natural form that the plastics develop into. In a way it’s letting the plastic do what it wants to do naturally, but with a professional edge. What happens next for you? I love the idea of my work being outside. I think in terms of the material and the colour it works really well. In the future, I'm looking at community projects and doing work that can been seen outside. I’d like to look at doing more industrial things. When you say you're studying textiles, are people surprised are you work in plastic? 
Tubes (detail) |
Yeah, even my dad thinks I’m going to be doing some fabric work soon. I think it’s about looking at textiles in a new and contemporary way. In terms of plastics, it's amazing what’s going on in plastics and clothes at the moment. There are clothes with nylon, polyester, clothes have got plastics in them so this is just looking at hard-core plastics in terms of looking at what’s going on there is is a textile and will be forever. See more works by NSAD students | 
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