The concept of Queer Tartan has taken me about 20 years. Scroll down and follow the blue line to see all the work I have done in the process! I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed making it!

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Domestika course release, July 2024

Work using “tassays”/3D beads, 2022

I had gone back to my roots and was looking at a lot of crafting stuff - weaving, embroidery, beadwork etc. I was brought up by hippies so all the people I was surrounded by made stuff with their hands. A lot of it was bloody awful. Just because you’ve used wood carving doesn’t mean it’s not kitsch. A lot of hippies have a thing about restoring antiques too. A craving for some utopian past. Blah. When slavery was legal and homophobia was not just the norm but expected!

I love nature though - the repetitive fractals. I wanted something that did that. I realised if I just condensed down what I was doing with the 3D shapes I had been using, into platonic solids, it would work. They look I think, like cosmic beads. I called these “tassays” because I was making lost of stuff with cut glass. I am working on some sculpture using old crystal decanters but it’s not ready to show yet.

Gem stones, 2020

I created these as an idea I had for a girl’s skateboard/lifestyle brand called Circus Pony. I own the trademark to that name in case anyone wants it. I thought I could make a sportswear brand using Print on Demand sportwear but quickly realised the quality is horrible and it’s all made probably by kids in India. I went back to the drawing board. Also I don’t like this style much. It looks tacky. Sometimes you have to take a step backwards to go forwards…

Work for DeepMind/Google, 2017

This was for an exclusive party at Printworks in Docklands. The theme was "Cosmic Circus". Hot Chip played. They are one of my favourite bands. Over and Over is amazing.

In my spare time I create a lot of esoteric illustration using a wide variety of techniques including a smartphone app, photography and some 3D software.

I created the typeface which was used for branding the event. This was based on Galdrastafir (ancient Icelandic magic symbols) and Icelandic magical staves (sigils).

The alien typeface was based on shapes found in commedia dell'arte and Thai letterforms.

The psychedelic spaceships were made using textile designs I had used for creating silk scarves.

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Anna Meredith banners, 2017

Anna settled on the gem stone idea in the end. She was vegan so we printed it on vegan silk made out of recycled plastic bottles.

Wilding Festival banners, St. George’s Church, Bloomsbury, London, 2013

I wrote a story for the banners. I had created my own typeface and I used this for the project.

These were printed onto silk which was wildly expensive!

Wilding Festival, Bloomsbury 2013. Banners can be seen at 0.56 and 3:14 and 3:53

Storytelling and craft sessions, Poohgrimage road trip, various dates from about 2013

I did this kind of work to balance out all the digital work I was doing in advertising agencies.

Patterns designed using SmartArt and charts in PowerPoint, 2010-14

I have been running a business called I Heart PowerPoint so I know the software very well. In some ways it can do what Adobe Illustrator can’t do. It is fun to play with. I have a course on Domestika about PowerPoint: www.domestika.org/courses/5399/frithaland

I made some of these patterns into very psychedelic leggings!

Loop Magazine article, 2013

Liberty London Open Call, 2009

I was reading a lot of fairytales, magical realism and writing a lot. These were magical maps and “flags” from a fantasy place.

A few pages from a book I wrote and illustrated for my MA about a rabbit on a road trip setting his friends free from the plastic they’ve been wrapped in. Rewilding them in some way using a magical kaleidoscope (which I called a “Chorkascope”) which I made from driftwood, air drying clay, paper, feathers and a toy windmill, 2010. Weirdly it’s almost exactly the same plot-line of the recent Barbie film.