'We'll do anything that makes you smile...'

Okay so I am aware that this isn't the best photo but I wanted to put this one on first before the next one to show the whole piece. This is some paper that I have made myself using brown paper and old book pages, I have also put some neutral coloured lace in there as well.

I have made paper in previous education but I have never been happier than I was with thi particular one, it is so delicate and so.... well me.

'Memories that fade like photographs...'

 So my FMP has been handed in and my exhibition has been set up. I'm really happy with my final outcome; however I haven't been able to get a photograph of my exhibition space.

My final piece ended up being a skirt I made out of wire and tissue paper, and then pinned in random places over the skirt were 'medals' that I had made.

After researching into great detail various aspects of my family history I decided to focus my FMP on my Grandparents, their love, the war, my Grandad as a naval soldier, and their lives together.

Below are 12 of the 24 medals that I made and the show the different materials and methods I used and they evaluate aspects of my Grandparents lives.

 

 

These first three are provide information on my Grandad, and the role he played in the Second World War.

These three examples introduce my Grandparents as a couple - Lilian and Thomas Kirkham.

  

These three a plain samples where I only used hand embroidery to experiment with mark making. I think they express the possibility of where I could develop these medals.

  

In these three samples I used imagery, daes and phrases to illustrate the war and how it was a big part of my Grandparents lives, not just as a couple but the general impact on them and their community.